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title: Each has its own value," said the wagon; "we cannot all be noblemen;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Each has its own value," said the wagon; "we cannot all be noblemen; there must be some to do the work." Who acts: Each, own value, we, game. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 13

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Each has its own value," said the wagon; "we cannot all be noblemen; there must be some to do the work."

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**Who acts:** Each, own value, we, game · **What happens:** have, say, not be, do, value · **To what, where:** own value, wagon, noblemen, work · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Each, own value, we, game), 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:pg27200:90:13
# text = Each has its own value," said the wagon; "we cannot all be noblemen; there must be some to do the work."
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	noblemen	nobleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	xcomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Each | game's own value |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | game's own value *not said here* | the wagon |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wagon=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | can | we | noblemen |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive |  | the work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 5 | **value** |  | game |  |  |  |  |  | nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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