Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 6

He knew very well that he had enough inside him to buy up all the other toys, and this gave him a very good opinion of his own value.

Who acts: two, this · What happens: know, have, buy up, give, opine, value · To what, where: other toys, good opinion, two, own value · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, this), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 well	advmod
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 knew	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	ccomp
8	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 had	advmod
9	inside	inside	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 buy	mark
12	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 buy	compound:prt
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 toys	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 toys	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 toys	amod
17	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 buy	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gave	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gave	cc
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 gave	nsubj
21	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gave	iobj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 opinion	det
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 good	advmod
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 opinion	amod
26	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gave	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 value	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 value	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 value	amod
30	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 opinion	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	two			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have	past	two			inside rattle; enough property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	buy up	to-infinitive	two not said here	all other toys			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Theme
4	give	past	this	a good opinion of two's own value	two		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient opinion=Theme
5	opine			two's own value			nom opinion «cognition transitive»: of=patient
6	value		two				nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=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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