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title: In reality, such remembrances are rather unpleasant: every sin, ever… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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, q
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 112

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:6:112
# text = 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.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	remembrances	remembrance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
14	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	chimes	chime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
32	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:outer	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
36	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
40	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	obj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
43	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	48	det	_	_
47	unbecoming	unbecoming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
53	on	on	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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.

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**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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