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title: The germ of every vice and every virtue lies in our heart, in yours… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Ta
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 99

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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.

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**Who acts:** germ, vice, you · **What happens:** lie, turn, make, ray, touch · **To what, where:** heart, touch, corner, right, decision, sunshine

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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 (germ, vice, you), 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:pg27200:5:99
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	germ	germ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	vice	vice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	till	till	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	nmod	_	_
50	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj:pass	_	_
58	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux:pass	_	_
59	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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