Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 53

Let us remember his improvements of seven and twenty years, if we cannot forget his crime.

Who acts: you, us, we, seven years, Christian · What happens: let, remember, not forget, improve, incriminate · To what, where: us, improvements, crime

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, we, seven years), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 improvements	nmod:poss
5	improvements	improvement	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 remember	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 years	case
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 twenty	cc
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 seven	conj
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 improvements	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 forget	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 forget	mark
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 forget	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 forget	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 forget	advmod
16	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 remember	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 crime	nmod:poss
18	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 forget	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us	tree rules
2	remember	infinitive	us not said here	Christian's improvements of seven years	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent improvement=Theme
3	not forget a condition, not said to happen	can	we	Christian's crime	tree rules
4	improve		seven years		nom improvement «event intransitive»: of=agent
5	incriminate		Christian		nom crime «act transitive»: 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: «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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