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title: Blind and deaf he sits--an old man thrust through with the spear of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Blind and deaf he sits--an old man thrust through with the spear of suffering, and amid the torments of neglect, scarcely able to lift his foot--that foot with which, in the anguish of his soul, when men denied the truth, he stamped upon the ground, with the exclamation, "Yet it moves!" Who acts: ma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 40

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Blind and deaf he sits--an old man thrust through with the spear of suffering, and amid the torments of neglect, scarcely able to lift his foot--that foot with which, in the anguish of his soul, when men denied the truth, he stamped upon the ground, with the exclamation, "Yet it moves!"

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**Who acts:** man, men, foot, soul · **What happens:** sit, lift, deny, stamp, move, torment · **To what, where:** old man thrust, foot, truth, ground, neglect

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, men, foot, soul), 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:pg27200:190:40
# text = Blind and deaf he sits--an old man thrust through with the spear of suffering, and amid the torments of neglect, scarcely able to lift his foot--that foot with which, in the anguish of his soul, when men denied the truth, he stamped upon the ground, with the exclamation, "Yet it moves!"
1	Blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	deaf	deaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	suffering	suffering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	amid	amid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	torments	torment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	neglect	neglect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	det	_	_
33	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	anguish	anguish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	parataxis	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	46	advmod	_	_
45	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
46	denied	deny	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	parataxis	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	stamped	stamp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
52	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	with	with	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	exclamation	exclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
60	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
62	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
63	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	63	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | man | a old man thrust through the spear of suffering |  |  |  | amid and the torments of neglect *obl* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lift** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | man's foot and that foot with man's foot and that foot with foot |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |
| 3 | **deny** | past | men | the truth |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent truth=Eventuality |
| 4 | **stamp** | past | man |  |  | the ground |  | with the exclamation | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon ground=Destination |
| 5 | **move** *in a quote* | present | foot |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **torment** |  |  | neglect |  |  |  |  | nom torment «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **anguish** |  | man's soul |  |  |  |  |  | nom anguish «feeling intransitive»: of=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:** «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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