Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 2
But he did not do so; he knew the value of money better than to use it in this way.
Who acts: merchant · What happens: not do, know, use, value · To what, where: value, way, money
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 do | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 do | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 knew | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 knew | nsubj |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 value | det |
| 11 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knew | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 money | case |
| 13 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 value | nmod |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 knew | conj |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 use | mark |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 use | mark |
| 17 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 better | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 use | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 way | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 way | det |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 use | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past · do-support | merchant | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know | past | merchant | the value of money | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer value=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | use | to-infinitive | merchant not said here | value | this way | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 4 | value | money | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=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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