--- title: Still she said not a word of all this; she could not relieve her hea… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Still she said not a word of all this; she could not relieve her heart by telling the laborer's wife, lest the latter should think she did not enjoy her former position at the castle. Who acts: journey, latter. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/74/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Anne Lisbeth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/) / 74 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 74 Still she said not a word of all this; she could not relieve her heart by telling the laborer's wife, lest the latter should think she did not enjoy her former position at the castle. **Who acts:** journey, latter · **What happens:** not say, not relieve, tell, think, not enjoy · **To what, where:** word, heart, wife, former position, castle · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (journey, latter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:5:74 # text = Still she said not a word of all this; she could not relieve her heart by telling the laborer's wife, lest the latter should think she did not enjoy her former position at the castle. 1 Still still ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 nmod _ _ 9 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 relieve relieve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 by by SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 laborer laborer NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 lest lest SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 latter latter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 nsubj _ _ 27 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 enjoy enjoy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 ccomp _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 position position NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | past | journey | a word of all | | | still | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 2 | **not** **relieve** | could | journey | journey's heart | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | journey *not said here* | | the laborer's wife | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | should | the latter | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **not** **enjoy** | past · do-support | journey | journey's former position | | the castle | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer position=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/75/) - ↑ back to [Anne Lisbeth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/)