--- title: His whole Court round him looked and looked, and saw no more than th… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: His whole Court round him looked and looked, and saw no more than the others; but they said like the Emperor, ‘Oh! it is beautiful!’ Who acts: whole Court, others, Court. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/59/) [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/) / 59 # The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 59 His whole Court round him looked and looked, and saw no more than the others; but they said like the Emperor, ‘Oh! it is beautiful!’ **Who acts:** whole Court, others, Court · **What happens:** look, see, say, be · **To what, where:** more · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (whole Court, others, Court), 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:pg640:6:59 # text = His whole Court round him looked and looked, and saw no more than the others; but they said like the Emperor, ‘Oh! it is beautiful!’ 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 round round ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nmod _ _ 6 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 12 no no ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 obj _ _ 14 than than ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 30 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ! ! PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | Dear's whole Court round Dear | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **look** | past | Dear's whole Court round Dear *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **see** | past | Dear's whole Court round Dear *not said here* | more | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | others *= other* | | | | | like the Emperor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | Court | | | | | beautiful *property* | tree rules | 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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/60/) - ↑ back to [Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). 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