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title: He saw also that there was more wealth here, when compared with his… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He saw also that there was more wealth here, when compared with his former home at his grandfather's. Who acts: ear, more wealth. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 6

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He saw also that there was more wealth here, when compared with his former home at his grandfather's.

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**Who acts:** ear, more wealth · **What happens:** see, be, compare

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ear, more wealth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:54:6
# text = He saw also that there was more wealth here, when compared with his former home at his grandfather's.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
12	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | ear |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **be** | past | more wealth |  |  | here; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **compare** | participle | ear *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with ear's former home; at ear's grandfather | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with home=Co-Patient |

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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.

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**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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