Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 125

“But it is delightful not to be forgotten!”

Who acts: iron · What happens: be, not forget

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (iron), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 delightful	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 delightful	cc
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 delightful	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 delightful	cop
5	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 forgotten	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	9 forgotten	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 forgotten	aux:pass
9	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 delightful	advcl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 delightful	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 delightful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	iron					delightful property	tree rules
2	not forget in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	iron not said here						tree rules

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: «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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