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title: But all these were not the heaviest weight he had to bear; something… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But all these were not the heaviest weight he had to bear; something mightier and more important he carried with him in his heart, over the high mountains, as he journeyed homeward. Who acts: these, heaviest weight, something, weight. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. A
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 4

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But all these were not the heaviest weight he had to bear; something mightier and more important he carried with him in his heart, over the high mountains, as he journeyed homeward.

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**Who acts:** these, heaviest weight, something, weight, number · **What happens:** not be, have, bear, carry, journey · **To what, where:** heaviest weight, something, heart, homeward

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (these, heaviest weight, something, weight), 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:pg27200:56:4
# text = But all these were not the heaviest weight he had to bear; something mightier and more important he carried with him in his heart, over the high mountains, as he journeyed homeward.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
3	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
15	mightier	mighty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
35	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past | these | all heaviest weight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | all heaviest weight | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | to-infinitive | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **carry** | past | weight |  |  | number's heart |  | with number | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in heart=Location |
| 5 | **journey** | past | number | homeward |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme homeward=Trajectory |

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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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