--- title: The people could see that they were very busy making the Emperor’s n… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The people could see that they were very busy making the Emperor’s new clothes ready. Who acts: people. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/65/) [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/) / 65 # The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 65 The people could see that they were very busy making the Emperor’s new clothes ready. **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** see, be, make · **To what, where:** new clothes · **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 (people), 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:pg640:6:65 # text = The people could see that they were very busy making the Emperor’s new clothes ready. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 very very ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ 10 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’s 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 10 obj _ _ 16 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | could | the people | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | past | people | | | | | busy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | gerund | people *not said here* | the Emperor's new clothes | | | | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset clothes=Product | 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 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/66/) - ↑ back to [Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/6/)