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title: The young man felt the truth of the proverb, "Still waters run deep:… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The young man felt the truth of the proverb, "Still waters run deep:" and his heart had sunk into their depths. Who acts: young man, Still waters. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 51

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The young man felt the truth of the proverb, "Still waters run deep:" and his heart had sunk into their depths.

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**Who acts:** young man, Still waters · **What happens:** feel, run, sink · **To what, where:** truth, heart, depths

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, Still waters), 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:pg27200:7:51
# text = The young man felt the truth of the proverb, "Still waters run deep:" and his heart had sunk into their depths.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	proverb	proverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Still	still	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	sunk	sink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | the young man | the truth of the proverb |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme |
| 2 | **run** *in a quote* | present | Still waters |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sink** | past · perfect · passive |  | power's heart |  | heart's depths |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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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