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title: No one wished it to be noticed that he could see nothing, for then h… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: No one wished it to be noticed that he could see nothing, for then he would have been unfit for his office, or else very stupid. Who acts: one, Emperor. 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 pragmat
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 87

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No one wished it to be noticed that he could see nothing, for then he would have been unfit for his office, or else very stupid.

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**Who acts:** one, Emperor · **What happens:** wish, notice, see, be · **To what, where:** train, nothing

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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 (one, Emperor), 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:pg640:6:87
# text = No one wished it to be noticed that he could see nothing, for then he would have been unfit for his office, or else very stupid.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
20	unfit	unfit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	else	else	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | no one | train |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 2 | **notice** | to-infinitive · passive | no one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING» |
| 3 | **see** | could | Emperor | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | would · perfect | Emperor |  |  |  |  | for Emperor's office; unfit *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | Emperor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | else *property* | 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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