--- title: Most beautiful!’ went from mouth to mouth; everyone seemed delighted… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Most beautiful!’ went from mouth to mouth; everyone seemed delighted over them, and the Emperor gave to the impostors the title of Court weavers to the Emperor. Who acts: Most, everyone, Emperor. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Anderse --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/63/) [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/) / 63 # The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 63 Most beautiful!’ went from mouth to mouth; everyone seemed delighted over them, and the Emperor gave to the impostors the title of Court weavers to the Emperor. **Who acts:** Most, everyone, Emperor · **What happens:** go, seem, give, title · **To what, where:** mouth, title, impostors, Court weavers 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 (Most, everyone, Emperor), 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:pg640:6:63 # text = Most beautiful!’ went from mouth to mouth; everyone seemed delighted over them, and the Emperor gave to the impostors the title of Court weavers to the Emperor. 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 nsubj _ _ 2 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 12 nsubj _ _ 12 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 over over ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 impostors impostor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 title title NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 Court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 weavers weaver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Most | | | mouth | | to mouth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from mouth=Initial\_Location to mouth=Destination | | 2 | **seem** | past | everyone | | | | | delighted *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **give** | past | the Emperor | the title of Court weavers | the impostors | | | to the Emperor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent title=Theme to impostor=Recipient | | 4 | **title** | | | Court weavers | | | | | nom title «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/64/) - ↑ back to [Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). 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