--- title: Again the flower lay among verses--printed verses--and they are bett… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Again the flower lay among verses--printed verses--and they are better than written ones--at least, more money has been spent upon them. Who acts: flower, verses. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/71/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Snowdrop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/) / 71 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 71 Again the flower lay among verses--printed verses--and they are better than written ones--at least, more money has been spent upon them. **Who acts:** flower, verses · **What happens:** lay, print, be, write, spend · **To what, where:** least, more money This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flower, verses), 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:pg27200:177:71 # text = Again the flower lay among verses--printed verses--and they are better than written ones--at least, more money has been spent upon them. 1 Again again ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 among among ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 verses verse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 -- -- PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 printed print VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 verses verse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 -- -- PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 conj _ _ 15 than than ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 17 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 -- -- PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ _ 23 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 27 upon upon ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | present | the flower | | | least | | among verses | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent among verse=Destination | | 2 | **print** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | verses *= verse* | | | | | than written ones; good *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **write** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **spend** | present · perfect · passive | | more money | | | | upon verses *= verse* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | 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 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/72/) - ↑ back to [The Snowdrop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/)