Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 118
Our heaviest grief the world oft seeth not, Our sorest pain we hide from stranger eyes: And for the sufferer there is nothing left But the green mound that o'er the coffin lies.”
Who acts: heaviest grief, sorest pain, nothing, green mound, Our · What happens: not see, hide, be, leave, o'er, lie · To what, where: stranger eyes, sufferer, coffin
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heaviest grief, sorest pain, nothing, green mound), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 grief | nmod:poss |
| 2 | heaviest | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 grief | amod |
| 3 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seeth | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 world | det |
| 5 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seeth | nsubj |
| 6 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 world | amod |
| 7 | seeth | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 seeth | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hide | punct |
| 10 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 pain | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sorest | sore | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 pain | amod |
| 12 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hide | nsubj |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 hide | nsubj |
| 14 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 seeth | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 eyes | case |
| 16 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eyes | compound |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hide | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 sufferer | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sufferer | cc |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 sufferer | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sufferer | det |
| 22 | sufferer | sufferer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seeth | parataxis |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 is | expl |
| 24 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 sufferer | acl:relcl |
| 25 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 24 is | nsubj |
| 26 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 nothing | acl |
| 27 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 lies | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 mound | det |
| 29 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 mound | amod |
| 30 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lies | nsubj |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 o'er | nsubj |
| 32 | o'er | o'er | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 mound | acl:relcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 coffin | det |
| 34 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 o'er | obj |
| 35 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 left | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 sufferer | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 sufferer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | present | Our heaviest grief | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | hide | present | Our sorest pain | stranger eyes | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from eye=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | be | present | nothing | the sufferer not said here | there | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sufferer=Theme | |||
| 4 | leave | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | o'er | present | the green mound | the coffin | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | lie | present | the green mound | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | pain | Our | nom pain «state 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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