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title: Our heaviest grief the world oft seeth not, Our sorest pain we hide… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Our heaviest grief the world oft seeth not, Our sorest pain we hide from stranger eyes: And for the sufferer there is nothing left But the green mound that o'er the coffin lies.” Who acts: heaviest grief, sorest pain, nothing, green mound. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Th
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 118

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Our heaviest grief the world oft seeth not, Our sorest pain we hide from stranger eyes: And for the sufferer there is nothing left But the green mound that o'er the coffin lies.”

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**Who acts:** heaviest grief, sorest pain, nothing, green mound, Our · **What happens:** not see, hide, be, leave, o'er, lie · **To what, where:** stranger eyes, sufferer, coffin

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heaviest grief, sorest pain, nothing, green mound), 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:pg1597:9:118
# text = Our heaviest grief the world oft seeth not, Our sorest pain we hide from stranger eyes: And for the sufferer there is nothing left But the green mound that o'er the coffin lies.”
1	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
7	seeth	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sorest	sore	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sufferer	sufferer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	24	nsubj	_	_
26	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	o'er	o'er	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | present | Our heaviest grief |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **hide** | present | Our sorest pain |  |  | stranger eyes |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from eye=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **be** | present | nothing | the sufferer *not said here* |  | there |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sufferer=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **o'er** | present | the green mound | the coffin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **lie** | present | the green mound |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **pain** |  | Our |  |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state 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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