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title: ‘Stupid I am not!’ thought the man, ‘so it must be my good office fo… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Stupid I am not!’ thought the man, ‘so it must be my good office for which I am not fitted. Who acts: Stupid. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 40

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‘Stupid I am not!’ thought the man, ‘so it must be my good office for which I am not fitted.

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**Who acts:** Stupid · **What happens:** think, be, not fit · **To what, where:** man, good office, I

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stupid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:6:40
# text = ‘Stupid I am not!’ thought the man, ‘so it must be my good office for which I am not fitted.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Stupid	stupid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	fitted	fit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Stupid | the man |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | must | stupid | my good office |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **fit** | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  | for my good office | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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