Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 46

But that is a long time ago, and it is all past now; however, a thing of that sort she never forgets.

Who acts: that, bow, thing · What happens: be, not forget · To what, where: long time

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, bow, thing), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 time	cc
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 time	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 time	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	ago	ago	ADV	_	6 time	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 forgets	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 forgets	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 now	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 now	cop
12	all	all	ADV	_	14 now	advmod
13	past	past	ADV	_	14 now	advmod
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 forgets	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 thing	punct
16	however	however	ADV	_	19 thing	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 however	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 thing	det
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 forgets	nsubj:outer
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 sort	case
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 sort	det
22	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 thing	nmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 forgets	nsubj
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 forgets	advmod
25	forgets	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 time	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	a long time	ago property	tree rules
2	is	present	bow		all, now, past property	tree rules
3	not forget	present	a thing of that sort			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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