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title: When once the conscience is awakened, it springs up in the heart spo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When once the conscience is awakened, it springs up in the heart spontaneously, and God awakens the conscience when we least expect it. Who acts: conscience, God, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 136

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When once the conscience is awakened, it springs up in the heart spontaneously, and God awakens the conscience when we least expect it.

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**Who acts:** conscience, God, we · **What happens:** awaken, spring up, expect · **To what, where:** heart, conscience

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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 (conscience, God, we), 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:pg27200:5:136
# text = When once the conscience is awakened, it springs up in the heart spontaneously, and God awakens the conscience when we least expect it.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	conscience	conscience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	springs	spring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	spontaneously	spontaneously	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	awakens	awaken	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	conscience	conscience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	least	least	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	24	advmod	_	_
24	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awaken** | present · passive | conscience *not said here* |  |  |  |  | once the conscience | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V» |
| 2 | **spring up** | present | conscience |  |  | the heart |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=Location |
| 3 | **awaken** | present | God | the conscience |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location conscience=Theme |
| 4 | **expect** | infinitive | we | conscience |  |  |  | least *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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