Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 54

And it would not be pleasant to have to run about the world in the form of a piece of paper, telling everything we have done, like the boasting shirt collar.

Who acts: history, we · What happens: not be, have, run, tell, do, form · To what, where: form, everything, piece · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (history, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 pleasant	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pleasant	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pleasant	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 pleasant	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 pleasant	cop
6	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 have	mark
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pleasant	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 run	mark
10	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 have	xcomp
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 world	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 run	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 form	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 form	det
16	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 run	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 piece	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 piece	det
19	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 form	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 paper	case
21	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 piece	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 telling	punct
23	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 run	advcl
24	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	23 telling	obj
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 done	nsubj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 done	aux
27	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 everything	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 collar	punct
29	like	like	ADP	_	33 collar	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 collar	det
31	boasting	boasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shirt	compound
32	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 collar	compound
33	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 telling	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pleasant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	would	history			pleasant property	tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive	history not said here				tree rules
3	run	to-infinitive	history not said here		the form of a piece of paper	about the world	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about world=Trajectory
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	history not said here	everything		like the shirt collar	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient
5	do	present · perfect	we				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	form			a piece of paper			nom form «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: «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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