Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 21

He forgot his hunger; he forgot the cakes; he forgot that he was in the woodcutter's hut.

Who acts: king · What happens: forget, not be, hunger · To what, where: hunger, cakes, hut

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Cakes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hunger	nmod:poss
4	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forgot	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 forgot	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 forgot	nsubj
7	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 forgot	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cakes	det
9	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 forgot	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 forgot	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 forgot	nsubj
12	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 forgot	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 hut	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hut	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hut	cop
16	in	in	ADP	_	20 hut	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woodcutter	det
18	woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hut	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 woodcutter	case
20	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 forgot	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	forget	past	king	king's hunger		tree rules
2	forget	past	king	the cakes		tree rules
3	forget	past	king			tree rules
4	not is	past	king		the woodcutter's hut	tree rules
5	hunger		king			nom hunger «state 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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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