--- title: With a great crowd of select followers, amongst whom were both the w… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: With a great crowd of select followers, amongst whom were both the worthy statesmen who had already been there before, he went to the cunning impostors, who were now weaving with all their might, but without fibre or thread. Who acts: Emperor, worthy statesmen, cunning impostors. A sentence of «The --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/46/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4).…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/) / 46 # The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 46 With a great crowd of select followers, amongst whom were both the worthy statesmen who had already been there before, he went to the cunning impostors, who were now weaving with all their might, but without fibre or thread. **Who acts:** Emperor, worthy statesmen, cunning impostors · **What happens:** be, have, go, weave · **To what, where:** worthy statesmen, cunning impostors 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 (Emperor, worthy statesmen, cunning impostors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:6:46 # text = With a great crowd of select followers, amongst whom were both the worthy statesmen who had already been there before, he went to the cunning impostors, who were now weaving with all their might, but without fibre or thread. 1 With with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 select select ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 followers follower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 amongst amongst ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 obl _ _ 11 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 12 both both CCONJ CC _ 15 cc:preconj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 worthy worthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 statesmen statesman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 already already ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 cop _ _ 20 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 21 before before ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 cunning cunning ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 impostors impostor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 31 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 33 weaving weave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 acl _ _ 34 with with SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 37 det:predet _ _ 36 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 without without ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 fibre fibre NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Emperor *not said here* | the worthy statesmen | | | | amongst a great crowd of select followers both the worthy statesmen | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | past | the worthy statesmen | | | | | before *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | participle | | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | past | Emperor | | | the cunning impostors | | with a great crowd of select followers both the worthy statesmen; without fibre or thread | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to impostor=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **weave** | past · progressive | the cunning impostors | | | | now | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/47/) - ↑ back to [Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). 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