Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 135
So, in a single instant, can the consciousness of the sin that has been committed in thoughts, words, and actions of our past life, be unfolded to us.
Who acts: past life · What happens: commit, unfold, act · To what, where: sin, thoughts, us, single instant
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (past life), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 31 unfolded | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 instant | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 instant | det |
| 5 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 instant | amod |
| 6 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 unfolded | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 consciousness | punct |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 consciousness | aux |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 consciousness | det |
| 10 | consciousness | consciousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 instant | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sin | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sin | det |
| 13 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 consciousness | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 committed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 committed | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 committed | aux:pass |
| 17 | committed | commit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 sin | acl:relcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 thoughts | case |
| 19 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 committed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 words | punct |
| 21 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 thoughts | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 actions | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 actions | cc |
| 24 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 instant | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 life | case |
| 26 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 life | nmod:poss |
| 27 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 life | amod |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 actions | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 instant | punct |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 unfolded | aux:pass |
| 31 | unfolded | unfold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 us | case |
| 33 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 unfolded | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 unfolded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commit | present · perfect · passive | the sin | thoughts and words | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in thought=Destination | ||||
| 2 | unfold | infinitive · passive | us | a single instant and actions of our past life | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: to we=Result | ||||
| 3 | act | our past life | nom action «act intransitive»: of=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.
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