---
title: ‘She’s surely more money than wit to throw gold about like that,’ sa… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘She’s surely more money than wit to throw gold about like that,’ said her stepsister, but in her secret heart she was very jealous, and determined that she too would go to the wood and look for strawberries. Who acts: first, more money. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three D
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/37/43/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Three Dwarfs, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/37/) / 43

# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 43

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
‘She’s surely more money than wit to throw gold about like that,’ said her stepsister, but in her secret heart she was very jealous, and determined that she too would go to the wood and look for strawberries.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** first, more money · **What happens:** be, throw, say, determine, go, look · **To what, where:** more money, gold, stepsister, secret heart, wood · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first, more money), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg540:37:43
# text = ‘She’s surely more money than wit to throw gold about like that,’ said her stepsister, but in her secret heart she was very jealous, and determined that she too would go to the wood and look for strawberries.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	wit	wit	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	stepsister	stepsister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	too	too	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	ccomp	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | first | more money |  |  |  | surely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **throw** | to-infinitive |  | gold |  |  |  | than wit; like that; about *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | more money | first's stepsister |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stepsister=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | past | first |  |  | first's secret heart |  | jealous *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **determine** | past | more money *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **go** | would | first |  |  | the wood |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **look** | infinitive | first *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for strawberries | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for strawberry=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/37/42/)
- next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/37/44/)
- ↑ back to [The Three Dwarfs, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/37/)