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title: He not only heard the grass grow, but could hear every man's heart b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He not only heard the grass grow, but could hear every man's heart beat, whether in sorrow or in joy. Who acts: Seer, grass. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 102

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He not only heard the grass grow, but could hear every man's heart beat, whether in sorrow or in joy.

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**Who acts:** Seer, grass · **What happens:** not hear, grow, hear · **To what, where:** grass, heart beat, sorrow

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Seer, grass), 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:pg27200:143:102
# text = He not only heard the grass grow, but could hear every man's heart beat, whether in sorrow or in joy.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **not** **hear** | participle | Seer | the grass |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer grass=Stimulus |
| 2 | **grow** | present | the grass *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | could | Seer *not said here* | every man's heart beat |  | sorrow or joy |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer beat=Stimulus |

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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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