Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 64

Man's greatest sorrows often are a part Of hidden griefs, concealed from human eyes, Which press far heavier on the lonely heart Than now the earth that on his coffin lies."

Who acts: greatest sorrows, human eyes, Man · What happens: be, conceal, press, lie, sorrow · To what, where: part, human eyes, earth, coffin

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greatest sorrows, human eyes, Man), 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	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sorrows	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Man	case
3	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 sorrows	amod
4	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 part	nsubj
5	often	often	ADV	_	8 part	advmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 part	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 part	det
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	Of	of	ADP	_	11 griefs	case
10	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 griefs	amod
11	griefs	grief	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 part	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 concealed	punct
13	concealed	conceal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 part	conj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 eyes	case
15	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 eyes	amod
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 concealed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 press	punct
18	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 press	nsubj
19	press	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 eyes	acl:relcl
20	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 heavier	advmod
21	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 press	xcomp
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 heart	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 heart	det
24	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 heart	amod
25	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 press	obl
26	Than	then	ADV	PronType=Dem Typo=Yes	27 now	advmod
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 press	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 earth	det
29	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 now	nsubj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 lies	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 coffin	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 coffin	nmod:poss
33	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lies	obl
34	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 earth	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 part	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 part	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Man's greatest sorrows	a part			of hidden griefs; often property	tree rules
2	conceal	participle	Man's greatest sorrows not said here		human eyes			vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from eye=Beneficiary
3	press	present	human eyes			now	on the lonely heart; heavy property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on heart=Theme
4	lie	present		the earth	Earth's coffin			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme
5	sorrow		Man					nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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