Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 140
The heart conceals within itself the vices as well as the virtues, and they grow in the shallowest ground.
Who acts: heart, vice · What happens: conceal, grow · To what, where: vices, shallowest ground
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 (heart, vice), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 heart | det |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 conceals | nsubj |
| 3 | conceals | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | within | within | ADP | _ | 5 itself | case |
| 5 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 conceals | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vices | det |
| 7 | vices | vice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 conceals | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 12 virtues | cc |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 as | fixed |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 as | fixed |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 virtues | det |
| 12 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 conceals | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grow | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 grow | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 grow | nsubj |
| 16 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 conceals | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 ground | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ground | det |
| 19 | shallowest | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 ground | amod |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grow | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 conceals | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conceal | present | the heart | the vices | within heart | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vice=Patient | |||
| 2 | grow | present | vice | the shallowest ground | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ground=Location |
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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