--- title: Every one, high and low, had from their inmost hearts expressed thei… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Every one, high and low, had from their inmost hearts expressed their opinion that it was a great misfortune for so many thousands of people--the whole country indeed--to have this man so sick, with no hopes of his recovery. Who acts: one, opinion, things, recovery. 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C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, opinion, things, recovery), 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:pg27200:84:95 # text = Every one, high and low, had from their inmost hearts expressed their opinion that it was a great misfortune for so many thousands of people--the whole country indeed--to have this man so sick, with no hopes of his recovery. 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 inmost inmost ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 hearts heart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 expressed express VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 opinion opinion NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 misfortune misfortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 advcl _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 -- -- PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 32 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 -- -- PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ _ 36 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 det _ _ 37 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 so so ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 43 det _ _ 43 hopes hope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 recovery recovery NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | | | | things's inmost hearts | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **express** | past | every one | things's opinion | | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | past | opinion | a great misfortune and the whole country | | | | for many thousands of people | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | to-infinitive | | this man | | | | sick *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | | 5 | **opine** | | things *= thing* | | | | | | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **hope** | | sunbeam's recovery | | | | | | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent | | 7 | **recover** | | sunbeam | | | | | | nom recovery «event intransitive»: poss=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. 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 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/84/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/84/96/) - ↑ back to [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/84/)