--- title: "Woe is me," she said; "was the germ of sin really in my heart? was… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/66/73/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [XV. the Conclusion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/66/) / 73 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:66:73 # text = "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? 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Woe woe NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 germ germ NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 sin sin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 really really ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ? ? PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 glimpse glimpse NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 future future ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 37 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 aux:pass _ _ 38 violently violently ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 parataxis _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 rescue rescue VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 advcl _ _ 42 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 sin sin NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/66/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/66/74/) - ↑ back to [XV. the Conclusion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/66/)