Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 19
They imagined evil in their hearts, but God turned it to good."
Who acts: persons, God · What happens: imagine, turn · To what, where: evil, hearts, good
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (persons, God), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 imagined | nsubj |
| 2 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 imagined | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hearts | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 imagined | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 turned | cc |
| 9 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | nsubj |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 imagined | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 turned | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 good | case |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 turned | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 imagined | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 imagined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | past | persons = person | evil | persons's hearts | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot evil=Theme | |||
| 2 | turn | past | God | evil | good | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme to good=Trajectory |
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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