Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 36

Perhaps it would be more profitable to have a sheep than a cow.

Who acts: it · What happens: be, have · To what, where: sheep

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 (it), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 profitable	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 profitable	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 profitable	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 profitable	cop
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 profitable	advmod
6	profitable	profitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 have	mark
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 profitable	csubj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sheep	det
10	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 cow	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cow	det
13	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sheep	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 profitable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	it					perhaps, profitable property	tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive		a sheep				than a cow	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=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: «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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