Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 41
But we are forgetting the birthday.
Who acts: we · What happens: forget · To what, where: birthday
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | _ | 4 forgetting | cc |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 forgetting | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgetting | aux |
| 4 | forgetting | forget | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 birthday | det |
| 6 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forgetting | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgetting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | present · progressive | we | the birthday | 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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