Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 102

He not only heard the grass grow, but could hear every man's heart beat, whether in sorrow or in joy.

Who acts: Seer, grass · What happens: not hear, grow, hear · To what, where: grass, heart beat, sorrow

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Seer, grass), 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 heard	nsubj
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 heard	advmod
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 heard	advmod
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grass	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 grass	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hear	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 hear	cc
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hear	aux
11	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 heard	conj
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beat	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 man	case
15	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beat	compound
16	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hear	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sorrow	punct
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	20 sorrow	mark
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 sorrow	case
20	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hear	obl
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 joy	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 joy	case
23	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sorrow	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not hear	participle	Seer	the grass		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer grass=Stimulus
2	grow	present	the grass not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	could	Seer not said here	every man's heart beat	sorrow or joy	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer beat=Stimulus

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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