The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 4

“You’ve forgotten something, Niels,” he said; “you remember you found a sword near here that night I shot the stag.”

Who acts: Niels, you · What happens: forget, say, remember, find, shoot · To what, where: You, sword, stag · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Niels, you), 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	_	4 forgotten	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 forgotten	nsubj
3	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 forgotten	aux:pass
4	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	ccomp
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 forgotten	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Niels	punct
7	Niels	Niels	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 something	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 forgotten	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 forgotten	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 remember	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 remember	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 remember	nsubj
15	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 found	nsubj
17	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 remember	ccomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 sword	det
19	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	obj
20	near	near	ADP	_	21 here	case
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 found	obl
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 night	det
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shot	obl:unmarked
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 shot	nsubj
25	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 found	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 stag	det
27	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shot	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	forget in a quote	present · passive		You		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Niels			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	remember in a quote	present	you			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	find in a quote	past	you	a sword		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Topic
5	shoot in a quote	past	Niels	the stag	night	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=Theme

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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