--- title: And this is a warning to us, to be careful how we act, for we may so… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/168/53/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Shirt-collar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/168/) / 53 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:168:53 # text = 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. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 11 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 12 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 act act VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 for for SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 17 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 18 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 det _ _ 20 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 22 ourselves ourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 obj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 rag rag NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 advcl _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 obl _ _ 38 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 45 even even ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 46 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 47 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 49 amod _ _ 48 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 actions action NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/168/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/168/54/) - ↑ back to [The Shirt-collar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/168/)