Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 4

Clever as he was, he had also a heart; but there was less said of his heart than of his money.

Who acts: father · What happens: be, say · To what, where: less · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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	Clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	10 heart	case
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heart	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 heart	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heart	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heart	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 heart	aux
8	also	also	ADV	_	10 heart	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 heart	det
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Clever	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 was	cc
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	aux:pass
15	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 said	nsubj:pass
16	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Clever	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 heart	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 heart	nmod:poss
19	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obl
20	than	than	ADP	_	23 money	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 money	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 money	nmod:poss
23	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heart	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Clever	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	father					as a heart	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past · passive		less				of father's heart than father's money	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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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