Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 186
What a source of evil, of that which we would not, welled up continually!
What happens: well up · To what, where: source
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 source | det |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 source | det |
| 3 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 welled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 evil | case |
| 5 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 source | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 welled | punct |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 which | nsubj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 would | obl |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 would | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 welled | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 would | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 welled | punct |
| 14 | welled | well | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 welled | compound:prt |
| 16 | continually | continually | ADV | _ | 14 welled | advmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 welled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | well up | would · passive | what source of evil | continually property | tree rules |
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.
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