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title: He could not comprehend his own feelings nor the feelings of others;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He could not comprehend his own feelings nor the feelings of others; but it is easily understood how a person can be admitted into a house or a family without becoming one of them. Who acts: Sweetly. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightca
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 115

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He could not comprehend his own feelings nor the feelings of others; but it is easily understood how a person can be admitted into a house or a family without becoming one of them.

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**Who acts:** Sweetly · **What happens:** not comprehend, understand, admit, become · **To what, where:** own feelings, other, person, house, one

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sweetly), 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:pg27200:128:115
# text = He could not comprehend his own feelings nor the feelings of others; but it is easily understood how a person can be admitted into a house or a family without becoming one of them.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	comprehend	comprehend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	understood	understand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	admitted	admit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **comprehend** | could | Sweetly | Sweetly's own feelings nor the feelings of others |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feeling=Stimulus |
| 2 | **understand** | present · passive |  | other |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **admit** *speech: other* | can · passive |  | a person |  | a house or a family |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | gerund |  | one of feelings |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient one=Result |

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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:** «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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