Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 99
The germ of every vice and every virtue lies in our heart, in yours and in mine; they lie like little grains of seed, till a ray of sunshine, or the touch of an evil hand, or you turn the corner to the right or to the left, and the decision is made.
Who acts: germ, vice, you · What happens: lie, turn, make, ray, touch · To what, where: heart, touch, corner, right, decision, sunshine
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 (germ, vice, you), 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 germ | det |
| 2 | germ | germ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lies | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 vice | case |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 vice | det |
| 5 | vice | vice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 germ | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 virtue | cc |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 virtue | det |
| 8 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 vice | conj |
| 9 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 heart | case |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lies | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 yours | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 yours | case |
| 15 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 mine | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 mine | case |
| 18 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 yours | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 lie | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lie | nsubj |
| 21 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lies | parataxis |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 grains | case |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 grains | amod |
| 24 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lie | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 seed | case |
| 26 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grains | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ray | punct |
| 28 | till | till | ADP | _ | 30 ray | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 ray | det |
| 30 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lie | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 sunshine | case |
| 32 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ray | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 touch | punct |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 touch | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 touch | det |
| 36 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lie | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 hand | case |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 hand | det |
| 39 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 hand | amod |
| 40 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 touch | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 turn | punct |
| 42 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 44 turn | cc |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 turn | nsubj |
| 44 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 lie | conj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 corner | det |
| 46 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 turn | obj |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 right | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 right | det |
| 49 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 corner | nmod |
| 50 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 53 left | cc |
| 51 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 left | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 left | det |
| 53 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 right | conj |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 made | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 made | cc |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 decision | det |
| 57 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 made | nsubj:pass |
| 58 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 59 made | aux:pass |
| 59 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 turn | conj |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the germ of every vice and every virtue | our heart in yours | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heart=Location | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | vice | the touch of a evil hand | till a ray of sunshine | like little grains of seed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 3 | turn | present | you | the corner | the right or the left | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent corner=Theme to right=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | make | present · passive | the decision | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 5 | ray | sunshine | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | touch | a evil hand | nom touch «event transitive»: of=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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