Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 164
Conscience had roused the memories of superstitions, and had so acted upon her mind, that she fancied she had only half a soul, and that her child had taken the other half down into the sea.
Who acts: Anne, child · What happens: rouse, act, fancy, have, take, mind · To what, where: Conscience, soul, other half, sea
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 (Anne, child), 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 | Conscience | conscience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roused | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 roused | aux |
| 3 | roused | rouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 memories | det |
| 5 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 roused | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 superstitions | case |
| 7 | superstitions | superstition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 memories | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 acted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 acted | cc |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 acted | aux |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 acted | advmod |
| 12 | acted | act | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 roused | parataxis |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 mind | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mind | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 acted | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fancied | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 fancied | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fancied | nsubj |
| 19 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 acted | conj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fancied | ccomp |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 half | advmod |
| 23 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 25 soul | det:predet |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 soul | det |
| 25 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 taken | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 taken | cc |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 taken | mark |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 child | nmod:poss |
| 30 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 taken | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 taken | aux |
| 32 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 roused | parataxis |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 half | det |
| 34 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 half | amod |
| 35 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 32 taken | obj |
| 36 | down | down | ADV | _ | 32 taken | advmod |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 sea | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sea | det |
| 39 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 taken | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 roused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rouse | past · perfect · passive | Conscience | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | act | past · perfect | upon Anne's mind | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fancy | past | Anne | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | have | past | Anne | half soul | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient | ||||
| 5 | take | past · perfect | Anne's child | the other half | the sea | down property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent half=Theme into sea=Destination | ||
| 6 | mind | Anne | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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