Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 120

We will, therefore, not listen to what was spoken, and on no condition run in the possibility of telling tales out of school; but we will rather proceed, like good quiet citizens, to East Street, and observe what happened meanwhile to the body of the watchman.

Who acts: We, possibility · What happens: not listen, speak, run, tell, proceed, observe · To what, where: condition, possibility, tales, school · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (We, possibility), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 listen	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 listen	aux
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 therefore	punct
4	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	7 listen	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 listen	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 listen	advmod
7	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 what	case
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 listen	obl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 spoken	aux:pass
11	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 what	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 condition	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 condition	cc
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 condition	case
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 condition	det
16	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 listen	obl
17	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 condition	acl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 possibility	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 possibility	det
20	possibility	possibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 run	obl
21	of	of	SCONJ	_	22 telling	mark
22	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 possibility	acl
23	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 telling	obj
24	out	out	ADP	_	26 school	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 school	case
26	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 telling	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 proceed	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 proceed	cc
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 proceed	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 proceed	aux
31	rather	rather	ADV	_	32 proceed	advmod
32	proceed	proceed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 listen	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 citizens	punct
34	like	like	ADP	_	37 citizens	case
35	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 citizens	amod
36	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 citizens	amod
37	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 proceed	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Street	punct
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 Street	case
40	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Street	compound
41	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 citizens	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 observe	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 observe	cc
44	observe	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 proceed	conj
45	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	46 happened	nsubj
46	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 observe	ccomp
47	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	50 body	advmod
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 body	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 body	det
50	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 happened	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 watchman	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 watchman	det
53	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 body	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not listen	future	We		no condition	therefore property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme
2	speak speech: other	past · passive					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»
3	run	participle		no condition not said here	the possibility		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in possibility=Trajectory
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	the possibility not said here	tales	school		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
5	proceed	future	we			like good quiet citizens to East Street	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	observe	infinitive	we not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	happen	past				to the body of the watchman	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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