--- title: The apple-bough had never thought of the boundless love of God, whic… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The apple-bough had never thought of the boundless love of God, which extends over all the works of creation, over everything which lives, and moves, and has its being in Him; he had never thought of the good and beautiful which are so often hidden, but can never remain forgotten by Him,--not only a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/6/24/) [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/) / [The Conceited Apple-branch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/6/) / 24 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 24 The apple-bough had never thought of the boundless love of God, which extends over all the works of creation, over everything which lives, and moves, and has its being in Him; he had never thought of the good and beautiful which are so often hidden, but can never remain forgotten by Him,--not only among the lower creation, but also among men. **Who acts:** boundless love, sunbeam, creation · **What happens:** not think, extend, live, move, have, be · **To what, where:** apple bough, works, Him, God · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boundless love, sunbeam, creation), 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:pg27200:6:24 # text = The apple-bough had never thought of the boundless love of God, which extends over all the works of creation, over everything which lives, and moves, and has its being in Him; he had never thought of the good and beautiful which are so often hidden, but can never remain forgotten by Him,--not only among the lower creation, but also among men. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 bough bough NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 thought think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 boundless boundless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 xcomp _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 extends extend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 17 over over ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 20 det:predet _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 works work NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 creation creation NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 over over ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 16 conj _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 34 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 35 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 cop _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Him Him PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 40 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 thought think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 obl _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 conj _ _ 48 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 52 nsubj:pass _ _ 49 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 aux:pass _ _ 50 so so ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 51 often often ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 52 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 54 but but CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 55 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 56 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 57 advmod _ _ 57 remain remain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 58 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 57 xcomp _ _ 59 by by ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 60 Him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 62 -- -- PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 63 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 68 advmod _ _ 64 only only ADV RB _ 68 advmod _ _ 65 among among ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 66 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 67 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 68 amod _ _ 68 creation creation NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 69 , , PUNCT , _ 73 punct _ _ 70 but but CCONJ CC _ 73 cc _ _ 71 also also ADV RB _ 73 advmod _ _ 72 among among ADP IN _ 73 case _ _ 73 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 74 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive | | the apple bough | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | | 2 | **extend** | present | the boundless love of God | | | all works of creation | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent over work=Path | | 3 | **live** | present | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **move** | present | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **have** | present | | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | gerund | | | | creation's Him | | | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · perfect | sunbeam | | | | | of the good | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 8 | **hide** | present · passive | | | | | | often *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 9 | **not** **remain** | can | | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **forget** | participle | | | | | | by sunbeam; among the lower creation | tree rules | | 11 | **love** | | | God | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient | | 12 | **work** | | creation | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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. 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