Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 69

No one could have expected the soul of the watchman to understand it, and yet he did understand it, for our souls have much greater capabilities then we are inclined to believe.

Who acts: watchman, souls · What happens: expect, understand, have, incline, believe · To what, where: one, soul, greater capabilities, we

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (watchman, souls), 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 expected	nsubj:pass
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 expected	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 expected	aux
5	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soul	det
7	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 expected	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 watchman	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 watchman	det
10	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 soul	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 understand	mark
12	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 expected	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 understand	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 understand	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 understand	cc
16	yet	yet	ADV	_	19 understand	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 understand	nsubj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 understand	aux
19	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 expected	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 understand	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 have	mark
23	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 souls	nmod:poss
24	souls	soul	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 have	nsubj
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 understand	advcl
26	much	much	ADV	_	27 greater	advmod
27	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 capabilities	amod
28	capabilities	capability	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 have	obj
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 inclined	advmod
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 inclined	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 inclined	aux:pass
32	inclined	incline	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 have	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 believe	mark
34	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 inclined	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 expected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	expect	could · perfect · passive		no one		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme soul=Eventuality
2	understand	to-infinitive		soul		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	understand	past · do-support	watchman	soul	yet	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	have	present	our souls	greater capabilities		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capability=Patient
5	incline	present · passive		we	then	tree rules
6	believe	to-infinitive				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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