Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 108

Be that as it may, it did comprehend it; for in our souls there germinate far greater powers than we poor mortals, despite all our cleverness, have any notion of.

Who acts: soul, souls · What happens: comprehend, germinate, have · To what, where: language, greater powers, notion

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soul, souls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 may	cop
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Be	nsubj
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 may	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 may	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 comprehend	aux
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 may	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 comprehend	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 comprehend	aux
9	comprehend	comprehend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 comprehend	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 germinate	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 souls	case
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 souls	case
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 souls	nmod:poss
15	souls	soul	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 germinate	nsubj
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 souls	advmod
17	germinate	germinate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 comprehend	parataxis
18	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 greater	advmod
19	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 powers	amod
20	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 germinate	obj
21	than	than	ADP	_	24 mortals	case
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 mortals	nsubj
23	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mortals	amod
24	mortals	mortal	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 powers	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cleverness	punct
26	despite	despite	ADP	_	29 cleverness	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 cleverness	det:predet
28	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 cleverness	nmod:poss
29	cleverness	cleverness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 germinate	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 have	punct
31	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 germinate	conj
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 notion	det
33	notion	notion	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	33 notion	case
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 comprehend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	comprehend	may · do-support	soul	language		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	germinate	present	our souls	greater powers	than poor mortals	tree rules
3	have	present	our souls not said here	any notion		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notion=Patient

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.

Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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