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title: What a source of evil, of that which we would not, welled up continu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: What a source of evil, of that which we would not, welled up continually! A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 186

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What a source of evil, of that which we would not, welled up continually!

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**What happens:** well up · **To what, where:** source

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:151:186
# text = What a source of evil, of that which we would not, welled up continually!
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	welled	well	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **well up** | would · passive |  | what source of evil |  |  |  | continually *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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