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title: The money-pig was stuffed so full that it could no longer rattle, wh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The money-pig was stuffed so full that it could no longer rattle, which is the highest state of perfection to which a money-pig can attain. Who acts: pig, rattle, money pig. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 4

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The money-pig was stuffed so full that it could no longer rattle, which is the highest state of perfection to which a money-pig can attain.

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**Who acts:** pig, rattle, money pig · **What happens:** stuff, rattle, be, attain · **To what, where:** money pig, highest state · **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 (pig, rattle, money pig), 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:pg27200:90:4
# text = The money-pig was stuffed so full that it could no longer rattle, which is the highest state of perfection to which a money-pig can attain.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	stuffed	stuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	no	no	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	rattle	rattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	acl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	perfection	perfection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	attain	attain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stuff** | past · passive |  | the money pig |  |  |  | full *property* | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **rattle** | could | pig |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** *speech: other* | present | rattle | the highest state |  |  |  | of perfection | tree rules |
| 4 | **attain** | can | a money pig |  |  |  |  | to the highest state | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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