Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 69

Here one of the sorrows of life, in which there is real poetry, gave itself vent; not that barren grief which the poet may only hint at, but never depict in its detail--misery and want: that animal necessity, in short, to snatch at least at a fallen leaf of the bread-fruit tree, if not at the fruit itself.

Who acts: one, real poetry, poet, life · What happens: be, give, hint, not depict, want, snatch · To what, where: real poetry, poetry, barren grief, detail, short

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 (one, real poetry, poet, life), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 poetry	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 sorrows	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sorrows	det
5	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 life	case
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sorrows	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 is	obl
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 is	expl
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 poetry	cop
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 poetry	amod
14	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 poetry	punct
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 gave	obj
18	vent	vent	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 grief	punct
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 grief	advmod
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 grief	det
22	barren	barren	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 grief	amod
23	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obl
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 hint	obj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 poet	det
26	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hint	nsubj
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 hint	aux
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 hint	advmod
29	hint	hint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 grief	acl:relcl
30	at	at	ADP	_	29 hint	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 depict	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 depict	cc
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 depict	advmod
34	depict	depict	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 gave	parataxis
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 detail	case
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 detail	nmod:poss
37	detail	detail	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 depict	obl
38	--	--	PUNCT	_	39 misery	punct
39	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 detail	conj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 want	cc
41	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 depict	conj
42	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 necessity	punct
43	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 necessity	det
44	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 necessity	compound
45	necessity	necessity	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	parataxis
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 snatch	punct
47	in	in	ADP	_	48 short	case
48	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 snatch	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 snatch	punct
50	to	to	PART	_	51 snatch	mark
51	snatch	snatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 necessity	conj
52	at	at	ADP	_	53 least	case
53	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	51 snatch	obl
54	at	at	ADP	_	57 leaf	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 leaf	det
56	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 leaf	amod
57	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 snatch	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	63 tree	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 tree	det
60	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 fruit	compound
61	-	-	PUNCT	_	60 bread	punct
62	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 tree	compound
63	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 leaf	nmod
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 fruit	punct
65	if	if	SCONJ	_	69 fruit	mark
66	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	69 fruit	advmod
67	at	at	ADP	_	69 fruit	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 fruit	det
69	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 snatch	parataxis
70	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	69 fruit	nmod:unmarked
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	one of the sorrows of life	real poetry			tree rules
2	give	past	real poetry	poetry		that barren grief obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient vent=Theme
3	hint speech: other	may	the poet	that barren grief			vn say-37.7-1-2 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic
4	not depict	infinitive			poet's detail and misery		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	want	present					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	snatch	to-infinitive	real poetry not said here		short	at least; at a fallen leaf of the fruit tree	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	fall	participle					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	sorrow		life				nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: of=agent
9	detail		poet				nom detail «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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