--- title: I am as valuable as any other corn," said he, "and I am much handsom… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: I am as valuable as any other corn," said he, "and I am much handsomer; my flowers are as beautiful as the bloom of the apple blossom, and it is a pleasure to look at us. Who acts: I, sparrow, flowers, apple blossom. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sparrow, flowers, apple blossom), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:14:10 # text = I am as valuable as any other corn," said he, "and I am much handsomer; my flowers are as beautiful as the bloom of the apple blossom, and it is a pleasure to look at us. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 as as ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 valuable valuable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 8 det _ _ 7 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 much much ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 handsomer handsome ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 as as ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 bloom bloom NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 blossom blossom NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 expl _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 acl _ _ 41 at at ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | I | | | | | as any other corn; valuable *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the sparrow *= sparrow* *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | I | | | | | handsome *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | my flowers | | | | | as the bloom of the apple blossom; beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | I *not said here* | a pleasure | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **look** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | at us | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at we=Theme | | 7 | **bloom** | | the apple blossom | | | | | | nom bloom «process intransitive»: of=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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/14/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/14/11/) - ↑ back to [The Buckwheat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/14/)