Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 7

But they did not know what endless misery he had brought upon other countries, nor did they hear the sighs and lamentations which rose up from the debris of the destroyed cities.

Who acts: buildings, sighs · What happens: not know, bring, hear, rise up, destroy · To what, where: endless misery, sighs, debris · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (buildings, sighs), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 know	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 brought	obj
7	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 misery	amod
8	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brought	nsubj:pass
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 brought	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 brought	aux
11	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 know	ccomp
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 countries	case
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 countries	amod
14	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 brought	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hear	punct
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	19 hear	cc
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hear	aux
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hear	nsubj
19	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 know	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sighs	det
21	sighs	sigh	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hear	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lamentations	cc
23	lamentations	lamentation	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sighs	conj
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 rose	nsubj
25	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sighs	acl:relcl
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 rose	compound:prt
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 debris	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 debris	det
29	debris	debris	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rose	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 cities	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cities	det
32	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 cities	amod
33	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 debris	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	buildings = building				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	bring	past · perfect · passive		endless misery		upon other countries	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination what=Theme
3	hear	past · do-support	buildings = building	the sighs and lamentations			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sigh=Stimulus
4	rise up	past	the sighs and lamentations		the debris of the destroyed cities		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from debris=Initial_Location
5	destroy	participle					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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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