Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 53

And this is a warning to us, to be careful how we act, for we may some day find ourselves in the rag-bag, to be turned into white paper, on which our whole history may be written, even its most secret actions.

Who acts: this, we, history · What happens: be, act, find, turn, write · To what, where: warning, us, ourselves, rag bag, white paper, whole history

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, we, history), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 warning	cc
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 warning	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 warning	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 warning	det
5	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 warning	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 careful	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	11 careful	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 careful	cop
11	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 warning	parataxis
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 act	advmod
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 act	nsubj
14	act	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 careful	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 find	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 find	mark
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 find	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 find	aux
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 find	obl:unmarked
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 act	conj
22	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 find	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	27 bag	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bag	det
25	rag	rag	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bag	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 rag	punct
27	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 find	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 turned	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	31 turned	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 turned	aux:pass
31	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 find	advcl
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 paper	case
33	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 paper	amod
34	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 turned	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 written	punct
36	on	on	ADP	_	37 which	case
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 written	obl
38	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 history	nmod:poss
39	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 history	amod
40	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 written	nsubj:pass
41	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 written	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 written	aux:pass
43	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 turned	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 actions	punct
45	even	even	ADV	_	49 actions	advmod
46	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 actions	nmod:poss
47	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	49 actions	amod
48	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 actions	amod
49	actions	action	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 written	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 warning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this	a warning	us				tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive						careful property	tree rules
3	act	present	we						vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	find	may	we	ourselves		the rag bag	day		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Topic
5	turn	to-infinitive · passive	we not said here			white paper			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: into paper=Trajectory
6	write	may · passive		our whole history				history's most secret actions obl	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=Destination
7	act		history						nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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.

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