Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 72

In fact, this memory of the soul is a fearful thing; every sin, every sinful thought it can bring back, and we may well ask how we are to give account of "every idle word" that may have been whispered in the heart or uttered with the lips.

Who acts: memory, sinful, we · What happens: be, think, bring back, ask, give, whisper · To what, where: fearful thing, fact, account, that, heart, idle word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (memory, sinful, we), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 fact	case
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thing	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fact	punct
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 memory	det
5	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thing	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 soul	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 soul	det
8	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 memory	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 thing	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 thing	det
11	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thing	amod
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 sin	punct
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 sin	det
15	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thing	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thought	punct
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 sinful	det
18	sinful	sinful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thought	nsubj
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thing	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bring	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 bring	aux
22	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 thought	ccomp
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 bring	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ask	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ask	cc
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 ask	nsubj
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 ask	aux
28	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 ask	advmod
29	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 bring	conj
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 are	advmod
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 are	nsubj
32	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 ask	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 give	mark
34	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 are	xcomp
35	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 give	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	40 word	case
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 word	punct
38	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	40 word	det
39	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 word	amod
40	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 account	nmod
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 word	punct
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 whispered	nsubj:pass
43	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 whispered	aux
44	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 whispered	aux
45	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 whispered	aux:pass
46	whispered	whisper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 word	parataxis
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 heart	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 heart	det
49	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 whispered	obl
50	or	or	CCONJ	_	51 uttered	cc
51	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 whispered	conj
52	with	with	ADP	_	54 lips	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 lips	det
54	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 uttered	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this memory of the soul	a fearful thing and every sin	fact		tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	every sinful				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	bring back	can	memory				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask	may	we			well property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	be	present	we				tree rules
6	give	to-infinitive	we not said here	account of every idle word			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme
7	whisper speech: assert	may · perfect · passive		that	the heart		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
8	utter speech: other	participle				with the lips	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
9	account			every idle word			nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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