Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 63

It would be well for us to beware, that we may not act in a similar manner, for we can never know if we may not, in the course of time, also come into the rag chest, and be made into white paper, and then have our whole life's history printed on it, even the most secret, and be obliged to run about and tell it ourselves, just like this collar.

Who acts: story, we · What happens: be, not act, not know, come, make, have · To what, where: similar manner, course, rag chest, white paper, history, story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The False Collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, we), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 beware	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 beware	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 beware	cop
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 beware	advmod
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 beware	mark
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 beware	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 beware	mark
8	beware	beware	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 act	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 act	mark
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 act	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 act	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 act	advmod
14	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 beware	parataxis
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 manner	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 manner	det
17	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 manner	amod
18	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 act	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 know	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 know	mark
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 know	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 know	aux
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 know	advmod
24	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 act	parataxis
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 may	mark
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 may	nsubj
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 know	ccomp
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 may	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 course	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 course	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 course	det
32	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 know	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 time	case
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 course	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct
36	also	also	ADV	_	37 come	advmod
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 know	parataxis
38	into	into	ADP	_	41 chest	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 chest	det
40	rag	rag	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 chest	compound
41	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 come	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 made	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 made	cc
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 made	aux:pass
45	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 come	parataxis
46	into	into	ADP	_	48 paper	case
47	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 paper	amod
48	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 made	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 have	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 have	cc
51	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	52 have	advmod
52	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 made	conj
53	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 life	nmod:poss
54	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 life	amod
55	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 history	nmod:poss
56	's	's	PART	_	55 life	case
57	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 have	obj
58	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 history	acl
59	on	on	ADP	_	60 it	case
60	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 printed	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 secret	punct
62	even	even	ADV	_	65 secret	advmod
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 secret	det
64	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	65 secret	amod
65	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 history	conj
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 obliged	punct
67	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 obliged	cc
68	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	69 obliged	aux:pass
69	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 come	conj
70	to	to	PART	_	71 run	mark
71	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	69 obliged	xcomp
72	about	about	ADV	_	71 run	advmod
73	and	and	CCONJ	_	74 tell	cc
74	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	71 run	conj
75	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	74 tell	obj
76	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	74 tell	iobj
77	,	,	PUNCT	_	81 collar	punct
78	just	just	ADV	_	81 collar	advmod
79	like	like	ADP	_	81 collar	case
80	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	81 collar	det
81	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 tell	obl
82	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 beware	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	story					beware, well property	tree rules
2	not act	may	we			a similar manner			vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not know	can	we			the course of time			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	come	infinitive				the rag chest			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into chest=Initial_Location
5	make	infinitive · passive				white paper			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: into paper=Product
6	have	present		our whole life's history and the most secret			then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Patient
7	print	participle		our whole life's history and the most secret not said here		story			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on it=Destination
8	oblige	infinitive · passive							vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
9	run about	to-infinitive						about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	tell speech: assert	infinitive		story	ourselves			like this collar	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Recipient it=Topic

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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