Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 21
No one would have believed or understood this sorrow of his heart, the deepest that can be felt by human nature.
Who acts: human nature, heart · What happens: believe, understand, feel, sorrow · To what, where: one, sorrow, deepest
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (human nature, heart), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 believed | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 believed | aux |
| 5 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 understood | cc |
| 7 | understood | understand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 believed | conj |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 sorrow | det |
| 9 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 understood | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 heart | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sorrow | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 felt | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 deepest | det |
| 15 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 felt | nsubj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 felt | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 felt | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 felt | aux:pass |
| 19 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 believed | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 nature | case |
| 21 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 nature | amod |
| 22 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 felt | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | would · perfect · passive | no one | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | understand | participle | this sorrow of man's heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sorrow=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | feel | can · passive | human nature | the deepest | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sorrow | man's heart | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: of=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: «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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