Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 115

He could not comprehend his own feelings nor the feelings of others; but it is easily understood how a person can be admitted into a house or a family without becoming one of them.

Who acts: Sweetly · What happens: not comprehend, understand, admit, become · To what, where: own feelings, other, person, house, one

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sweetly), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 comprehend	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 comprehend	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 comprehend	advmod
4	comprehend	comprehend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 feelings	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feelings	amod
7	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 comprehend	obj
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	10 feelings	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 feelings	det
10	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 feelings	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 others	case
12	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 feelings	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 understood	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 understood	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 understood	nsubj:pass
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 understood	aux:pass
17	easily	easily	ADV	_	18 understood	advmod
18	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 comprehend	conj
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 admitted	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 person	det
21	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 admitted	nsubj:pass
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 admitted	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 admitted	aux:pass
24	admitted	admit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 understood	advcl
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 house	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 house	det
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 admitted	obl
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 family	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 family	det
30	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 house	conj
31	without	without	SCONJ	_	32 becoming	mark
32	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 admitted	advcl
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 becoming	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 one	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 comprehend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not comprehend	could	Sweetly	Sweetly's own feelings nor the feelings of others			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feeling=Stimulus
2	understand	present · passive		other		easily property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
3	admit speech: other	can · passive		a person	a house or a family		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	become	gerund		one of feelings			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient one=Result

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: «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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