Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 136
When once the conscience is awakened, it springs up in the heart spontaneously, and God awakens the conscience when we least expect it.
Who acts: conscience, God, we · What happens: awaken, spring up, expect · To what, where: heart, conscience
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 (conscience, God, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 awakened | mark |
| 2 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 4 conscience | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 conscience | det |
| 4 | conscience | conscience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 awakened | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 awakened | aux:pass |
| 6 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 springs | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 awakened | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 springs | nsubj |
| 9 | springs | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 springs | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 heart | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heart | det |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 springs | obl |
| 14 | spontaneously | spontaneously | ADV | _ | 13 heart | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 awakens | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 awakens | cc |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 awakens | nsubj |
| 18 | awakens | awaken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 springs | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 conscience | det |
| 20 | conscience | conscience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 awakens | obj |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 expect | advmod |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 expect | nsubj |
| 23 | least | least | ADV | Degree=Sup | 24 expect | advmod |
| 24 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 awakens | advcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 expect | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 springs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awaken | present · passive | conscience not said here | once the conscience | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V» | ||||
| 2 | spring up | present | conscience | the heart | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=Location | ||||
| 3 | awaken | present | God | the conscience | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location conscience=Theme | ||||
| 4 | expect | infinitive | we | conscience | least property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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