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title: Here one of the sorrows of life, in which there is real poetry, gave… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Here one of the sorrows of life, in which there is real poetry, gave itself vent; not that barren grief which the poet may only hint at, but never depict in its detail--misery and want: that animal necessity, in short, to snatch at least at a fallen leaf of the bread-fruit tree, if not at the fruit 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 69

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Here one of the sorrows of life, in which there is real poetry, gave itself vent; not that barren grief which the poet may only hint at, but never depict in its detail--misery and want: that animal necessity, in short, to snatch at least at a fallen leaf of the bread-fruit tree, if not at the fruit itself.

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**Who acts:** one, real poetry, poet, life · **What happens:** be, give, hint, not depict, want, snatch · **To what, where:** real poetry, poetry, barren grief, detail, short

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, real poetry, poet, life), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:6:69
# text = Here one of the sorrows of life, in which there is real poetry, gave itself vent; not that barren grief which the poet may only hint at, but never depict in its detail--misery and want: that animal necessity, in short, to snatch at least at a fallen leaf of the bread-fruit tree, if not at the fruit itself.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	vent	vent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	barren	barren	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	hint	hint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	depict	depict	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	detail	detail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	misery	misery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
43	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	45	det	_	_
44	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	necessity	necessity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	snatch	snatch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	conj	_	_
52	at	at	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	51	obl	_	_
54	at	at	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	amod	_	_
57	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
60	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	compound	_	_
63	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
65	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	69	mark	_	_
66	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	69	advmod	_	_
67	at	at	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
68	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
69	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	parataxis	_	_
70	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	69	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | one of the sorrows of life | real poetry |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | past | real poetry | poetry |  |  |  | that barren grief *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient vent=Theme |
| 3 | **hint** *speech: other* | may | the poet | that barren grief |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-2 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **depict** | infinitive |  |  |  | poet's detail and misery |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **want** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **snatch** | to-infinitive | real poetry *not said here* |  |  | short |  | at least; at a fallen leaf of the fruit tree | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **sorrow** |  | life |  |  |  |  |  | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
| 9 | **detail** |  | poet |  |  |  |  |  | nom detail «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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