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title: The Emperor came himself with his most distinguished knights, and ea… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Emperor came himself with his most distinguished knights, and each impostor held up his arm just as if he were holding something, and said, ‘See! here are the breeches! Who acts: Emperor, impostor. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) A
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 67

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The Emperor came himself with his most distinguished knights, and each impostor held up his arm just as if he were holding something, and said, ‘See! here are the breeches!

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**Who acts:** Emperor, impostor · **What happens:** come, hold up, hold, say, see, be · **To what, where:** Emperor, arm, something, breeches · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Emperor, impostor), 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:pg640:6:67
# text = The Emperor came himself with his most distinguished knights, and each impostor held up his arm just as if he were holding something, and said, ‘See! here are the breeches!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
8	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	impostor	impostor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
24	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	See	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
32	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	breeches	breech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Emperor | Emperor |  |  |  | with Emperor's most distinguished knights; each impostor *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme |
| 2 | **hold up** | participle | each impostor *not said here* | Emperor's arm |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot arm=Theme |
| 3 | **hold** | past · progressive | Emperor | something |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **see** | infinitive |  |  |  | here |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  | the breeches |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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