--- title: "Fortune is as good as red gold, but a new charming story would be b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Fortune is as good as red gold, but a new charming story would be better still," thought the man; but he could not find it here. Who acts: Fortune, new charming story, man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Wo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/62/) [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 Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Sa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/) / 62 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 62 "Fortune is as good as red gold, but a new charming story would be better still," thought the man; but he could not find it here. **Who acts:** Fortune, new charming story, man · **What happens:** be, think, not find · **To what, where:** fortune · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fortune, new charming story, man), 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:pg27200:211:62 # text = "Fortune is as good as red gold, but a new charming story would be better still," thought the man; but he could not find it here. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 as as ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 charming charming NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 cop _ _ 17 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 conj _ _ 18 still still ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Fortune | | | | | as red gold; good *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | would | a new charming story | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the man | | | | still | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **find** | could | man | fortune | | here | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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. - ← previous: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/63/) - ↑ back to [The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/)