Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 88
Forget my tears, forget my prayers, and all that I have done!”
Who acts: you, I, my · What happens: forget, do, pray · To what, where: tears, prayers, that
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, my), 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 | Forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 tears | nmod:poss |
| 3 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Forget | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 forget | punct |
| 5 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Forget | conj |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 prayers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 forget | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 done | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 done | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 done | det:predet |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 done | obj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 done | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Forget | parataxis |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Forget | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Forget | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | imperative | you not said here | my tears | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forget | infinitive | you not said here | my prayers | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | present · perfect | I | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | pray | my | nom prayer «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: «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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