Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 5

He has heard a great deal; although he cannot see, poor miserable creature, yet he understands very well how to wriggle and lurk about.

Who acts: worm · What happens: hear, not see, understand, wriggle, lurk · To what, where: great deal, poor miserable creature · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (worm), 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	3 heard	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	aux
3	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 deal	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 deal	amod
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
8	although	although	SCONJ	_	12 see	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 see	advmod
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 heard	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 creature	punct
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 creature	amod
15	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 creature	amod
16	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 see	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 understands	punct
18	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	20 understands	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 understands	nsubj
20	understands	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 well	advmod
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 wriggle	advmod
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 wriggle	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 wriggle	mark
25	wriggle	wriggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 understands	ccomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lurk	cc
27	lurk	lurk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 wriggle	conj
28	about	about	ADV	_	27 lurk	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	present · perfect	worm	a great deal		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus
2	not see	can	worm	poor miserable creature		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus
3	understand	present	worm			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	wriggle	to-infinitive			well property	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	lurk	infinitive			about property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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