Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 139

We are horrified at the thought of what we have carried within us, and at the consciousness that we have not overcome the evil which has its origin in thoughtlessness and pride.

Who acts: we, evil · What happens: horrify, carry, not overcome, have · To what, where: We, thought, that, origin, thoughtlessness

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 (we, evil), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 horrified	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 horrified	aux:pass
3	horrified	horrify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 thought	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thought	det
6	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 horrified	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 what	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 thought	nmod
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 carried	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 carried	aux
11	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 what	acl:relcl
12	within	within	ADP	_	13 us	case
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 carried	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 consciousness	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 consciousness	cc
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 consciousness	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 consciousness	det
18	consciousness	consciousness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 horrified	parataxis
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 overcome	obj
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 overcome	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 overcome	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 overcome	advmod
23	overcome	overcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 consciousness	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 evil	det
25	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 overcome	obj
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 has	nsubj
27	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 evil	acl:relcl
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 origin	nmod:poss
29	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 has	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 thoughtlessness	case
31	thoughtlessness	thoughtlessness	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 has	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 pride	cc
33	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 thoughtlessness	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 horrified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	horrify	present · passive		We	the thought		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	carry	present · perfect	we			within us	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not overcome	present	we	that			tree rules
4	have	present	the evil	thought's origin	thoughtlessness and pride		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent origin=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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