--- title: We should take this to heart, so that it may not happen to us, for w… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: We should take this to heart, so that it may not happen to us, for we cannot indeed tell if we may not some day come to the rag-bag, and be made into white paper, on which will be printed our whole history, even the most secret parts, so that we too go about the world relating it, like the shirt-col --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/6/61/) [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/) / [The Pink Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/) / [The Pink Fairy Book, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/6/) / 61 # The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 61 We should take this to heart, so that it may not happen to us, for we cannot indeed tell if we may not some day come to the rag-bag, and be made into white paper, on which will be printed our whole history, even the most secret parts, so that we too go about the world relating it, like the shirt-collar. **Who acts:** We, it · **What happens:** take, not happen, not tell, not come, make, print · **To what, where:** this, us, rag bag, white paper, whole history, paper · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (We, it), 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:pg5615:6:61 # text = We should take this to heart, so that it may not happen to us, for we cannot indeed tell if we may not some day come to the rag-bag, and be made into white paper, on which will be printed our whole history, even the most secret parts, so that we too go about the world relating it, like the shirt-collar. 1 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 for for SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 18 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 21 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 24 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 25 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 27 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 28 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 29 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 rag rag NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 39 into into ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 43 on on ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 47 obl _ _ 45 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 46 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 47 aux:pass _ _ 47 printed print VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 parataxis _ _ 48 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 49 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 52 even even ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 54 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 55 advmod _ _ 55 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 58 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 62 mark _ _ 59 that that SCONJ IN _ 58 fixed _ _ 60 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 62 nsubj _ _ 61 too too ADV RB _ 62 advmod _ _ 62 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 conj _ _ 63 about about ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 64 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 65 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obl _ _ 66 relating relate VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 62 advcl _ _ 67 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 66 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 68 , , PUNCT , _ 73 punct _ _ 69 like like ADP IN _ 73 case _ _ 70 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 73 det _ _ 71 shirt shirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 72 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 71 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 73 collar collar NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 74 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | should | We | this | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | | 2 | **not** **happen** | may | it | | us | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | we | | | | | indeed *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | may | we | | | the rag bag | day | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bag=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **make** | infinitive · passive | | | | white paper | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: into paper=Product | | 6 | **print** | future · passive | | our whole history and the secret parts | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: history=Theme on which=Destination | | 7 | **go** | present | we | | | | | about the world; like the shirt collar | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about world=Location | | 8 | **relate** | gerund | we *not said here* | paper | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/6/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/6/62/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/6/)