Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 112

In reality, such remembrances are rather unpleasant: every sin, every evil thought, may, like a clock with alarm or chimes, be repeated at pleasure; then the question is if we can trust ourselves to give an account of every unbecoming word in our heart and on our lips.

Who acts: such remembrances, question · What happens: be, repeat, give, account · To what, where: reality, pleasure, account, unbecoming word

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (such remembrances, question), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 reality	case
2	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 unpleasant	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 reality	punct
4	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 remembrances	amod
5	remembrances	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 unpleasant	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 unpleasant	cop
7	rather	rather	ADV	_	8 unpleasant	advmod
8	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 sin	punct
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 sin	det
11	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 unpleasant	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 thought	det
14	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thought	amod
15	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sin	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 clock	punct
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 clock	aux
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 clock	punct
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 clock	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 clock	det
21	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sin	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 alarm	case
23	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 clock	nmod
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 chimes	cc
25	chimes	chime	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 alarm	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 repeated	punct
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 repeated	aux:pass
28	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 sin	conj
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 pleasure	case
30	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 repeated	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 trust	punct
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 trust	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 question	det
34	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 trust	nsubj:outer
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 trust	cop
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 trust	mark
37	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 trust	nsubj
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 trust	aux
39	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 unpleasant	conj
40	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 trust	obj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 give	mark
42	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 trust	xcomp
43	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 account	det
44	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 give	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 word	case
46	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	48 word	det
47	unbecoming	unbecoming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 word	amod
48	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 account	nmod
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 heart	case
50	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 heart	nmod:poss
51	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 word	nmod
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 lips	cc
53	on	on	ADP	_	55 lips	case
54	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 lips	nmod:poss
55	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 heart	conj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 unpleasant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	such remembrances		reality		unpleasant property	tree rules
2	repeat	infinitive · passive	such remembrances not said here		pleasure			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»
3	is a condition, not said to happen	can · present	the question			then	trust property	tree rules
4	give	to-infinitive	the question not said here	a account of every unbecoming word in our heart and our lips				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme
5	account			every unbecoming word in our heart and our lips				nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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