Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 73
"Woe is me," she said; "was the germ of sin really in my heart? was my dream a glimpse into the course of my future life, whose thread must be violently broken to rescue me from sin?
Who acts: happiness, germ · What happens: be, say, break, rescue · To what, where: happiness, course, germ, heart, dream, thread · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (happiness, germ), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Woe | punct |
| 2 | Woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 me | cop |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Woe | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Woe | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 germ | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 germ | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 germ | det |
| 13 | germ | germ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dream | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sin | case |
| 15 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 germ | nmod |
| 16 | really | really | ADV | _ | 19 heart | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 heart | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 germ | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 heart | punct |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 dream | cop |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 dream | nmod:poss |
| 23 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 glimpse | det |
| 25 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 course | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 course | det |
| 28 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 life | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 life | nmod:poss |
| 31 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 life | amod |
| 32 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 course | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 broken | punct |
| 34 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 35 thread | nmod:poss |
| 35 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 broken | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 broken | aux:pass |
| 38 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 39 broken | advmod |
| 39 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 life | parataxis |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 rescue | mark |
| 41 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 broken | advcl |
| 42 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 rescue | obj |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 sin | case |
| 44 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 rescue | obl |
| 45 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | happiness not said here | happiness | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | happiness | the course of my future life | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | the germ | my heart | of sin | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | the germ | my dream | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | break in a quote | must · passive | thread | violently property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | rescue in a quote | to-infinitive | happiness | sin | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from sin=Source |
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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