Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 4

But all these were not the heaviest weight he had to bear; something mightier and more important he carried with him in his heart, over the high mountains, as he journeyed homeward.

Who acts: these, heaviest weight, something, weight, number · What happens: not be, have, bear, carry, journey · To what, where: heaviest weight, something, heart, homeward

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (these, heaviest weight, something, weight), 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	_	10 had	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 weight	det:predet
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 weight	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 weight	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 weight	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 weight	det
7	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 weight	amod
8	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 bear	mark
12	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 something	punct
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 had	obj
15	mightier	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 something	amod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 important	cc
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 important	advmod
18	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mightier	conj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 carried	nsubj
20	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 important	parataxis
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 carried	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 heart	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 heart	nmod:poss
25	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 carried	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 mountains	punct
27	over	over	ADP	_	30 mountains	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mountains	det
29	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mountains	amod
30	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 carried	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 journeyed	punct
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 journeyed	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 journeyed	nsubj
34	journeyed	journey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 carried	conj
35	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 journeyed	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	these	all heaviest weight			tree rules
2	have	past	all heaviest weight	something			tree rules
3	bear	to-infinitive	something not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	carry	past	weight		number's heart	with number	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in heart=Location
5	journey	past	number	homeward			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme homeward=Trajectory

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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