Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 28

I tell you what; I dare say a horse is of more value than a cow; but I don't care for that,--a cow will be more useful to me; so, if you like, we'll exchange."

Who acts: I, horse, cow, you, we · What happens: tell, say, be, not care, like, exchange · To what, where: you, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, horse, cow, you), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 tell	nsubj
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 say	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 say	nsubj
7	dare	dare	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tell	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 value	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 value	cop
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 value	case
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 value	amod
14	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	ccomp
15	than	than	ADP	_	17 cow	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cow	det
17	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 value	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 care	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 care	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 care	nsubj
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 care	aux
22	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 care	advmod
23	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tell	ccomp
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 that	case
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 care	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 useful	punct
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 useful	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 cow	det
29	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 useful	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 useful	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 useful	cop
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 useful	advmod
33	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 care	parataxis
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 me	case
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 useful	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 exchange	punct
37	so	so	ADV	_	45 exchange	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 exchange	punct
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 like	mark
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 like	nsubj
41	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 exchange	advcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 like	punct
43	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 exchange	nsubj
44	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 exchange	aux
45	exchange	exchange	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tell	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	I	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	dare	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	is	present	a horse		of more value; than a cow	tree rules
4	not care	present · do-support	I		for that	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for that=Theme
5	is	future	a cow	me	useful property	tree rules
6	like a condition, not said to happen	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	exchange	future	we			vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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