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title: No one would have believed or understood this sorrow of his heart, t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: No one would have believed or understood this sorrow of his heart, the deepest that can be felt by human nature. Who acts: human nature, heart. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 21

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No one would have believed or understood this sorrow of his heart, the deepest that can be felt by human nature.

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**Who acts:** human nature, heart · **What happens:** believe, understand, feel, sorrow · **To what, where:** one, sorrow, deepest

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (human nature, heart), 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:pg27200:204:21
# text = No one would have believed or understood this sorrow of his heart, the deepest that can be felt by human nature.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	understood	understand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	nsubj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	felt	feel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | would · perfect · passive |  | no one |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **understand** | participle |  | this sorrow of man's heart |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sorrow=Stimulus |
| 3 | **feel** | can · passive | human nature | the deepest |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **sorrow** |  | man's heart |  |  |  |  |  | nom sorrow «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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