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title: Man's greatest sorrows often are a part Of hidden griefs, concealed… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Man's greatest sorrows often are a part Of hidden griefs, concealed from human eyes, Which press far heavier on the lonely heart Than now the earth that on his coffin lies." Who acts: greatest sorrows, human eyes, Man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bes
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 64

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Man's greatest sorrows often are a part Of hidden griefs, concealed from human eyes, Which press far heavier on the lonely heart Than now the earth that on his coffin lies."

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**Who acts:** greatest sorrows, human eyes, Man · **What happens:** be, conceal, press, lie, sorrow · **To what, where:** part, human eyes, earth, coffin

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greatest sorrows, human eyes, Man), 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:pg27200:45:64
# text = Man's greatest sorrows often are a part Of hidden griefs, concealed from human eyes, Which press far heavier on the lonely heart Than now the earth that on his coffin lies."
1	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	griefs	grief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	press	press	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	xcomp	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	Than	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem|Typo=Yes	27	advmod	_	_
27	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
34	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Man's greatest sorrows | a part |  |  |  | of hidden griefs; often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **conceal** | participle | Man's greatest sorrows *not said here* |  |  | human eyes |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from eye=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **press** | present | human eyes |  |  |  | now | on the lonely heart; heavy *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on heart=Theme |
| 4 | **lie** | present |  | the earth |  | Earth's coffin |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme |
| 5 | **sorrow** |  | Man |  |  |  |  |  | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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:** «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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