The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 24

Besides, I have a very important errand that I had almost forgotten about."

Who acts: I · What happens: have, forget about · To what, where: important errand

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cock and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	Besides	besides	INTJ	_	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Besides	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 errand	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 important	advmod
7	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 errand	amod
8	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 forgotten	nsubj:pass
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 forgotten	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 forgotten	aux
12	almost	almost	ADV	_	13 forgotten	advmod
13	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 errand	acl:relcl
14	about	about	ADV	_	13 forgotten	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	a important errand					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent errand=Patient
2	forget about	past · perfect · passive		a important errand				about, almost property	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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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