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title: "But beauty is of higher value than all this," said the apple-tree b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "But beauty is of higher value than all this," said the apple-tree branch; "only the chosen ones can be admitted into the realms of the beautiful. Who acts: beauty, higher value. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, with its dependency
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 43

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"But beauty is of higher value than all this," said the apple-tree branch; "only the chosen ones can be admitted into the realms of the beautiful.

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**Who acts:** beauty, higher value · **What happens:** be, say, choose, admit · **To what, where:** tree branch, chosen ones, realms · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beauty, higher value), 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:pg27200:6:43
# text = "But beauty is of higher value than all this," said the apple-tree branch; "only the chosen ones can be admitted into the realms of the beautiful.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
3	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	admitted	admit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	realms	realm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | beauty |  |  |  |  | of higher value; than this | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | higher value | the tree branch |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent branch=Topic |
| 3 | **choose** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **admit** *speech: other* *in a quote* | can · passive |  | the chosen ones |  | the realms of the beautiful |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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