Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 38

It is a warning to mankind, that in all our thoughts and schemes, and in every action we undertake, we should say, "if God will."

Who acts: terror, we, our · What happens: be, undertake, say, think · To what, where: warning, action · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terror, we, our), 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	4 warning	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 warning	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 warning	det
4	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 mankind	case
6	mankind	mankind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warning	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 that	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 warning	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 thoughts	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 thoughts	det
11	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 thoughts	nmod:poss
12	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 that	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 schemes	cc
14	schemes	scheme	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 thoughts	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 say	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 say	cc
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 action	case
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 action	det
19	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 say	obl
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 undertake	nsubj
21	undertake	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 action	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 action	punct
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 say	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 say	aux
25	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 thoughts	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 will	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 will	punct
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 will	mark
29	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 will	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 say	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 warning	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 warning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	terror	a warning		to mankind	tree rules
2	undertake	present	we	every action not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	should	we		every action		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in action=Manner
4	think		our				nom thought «cognition transitive»: 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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