Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 138

He had forgotten me, and even had we met he would not have known me, for I have lost all my good looks, and perhaps that is all for the best."

Who acts: student, we, I · What happens: forget, meet, not know, lose · To what, where: me, student, good looks

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (student, we, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forgotten	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 forgotten	aux
3	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 forgotten	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 met	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 met	cc
7	even	even	ADV	_	10 met	advmod
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 met	aux
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 met	nsubj
10	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 forgotten	parataxis
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 known	nsubj:pass
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 known	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 known	advmod
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 known	aux
15	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 met	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 known	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lost	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 lost	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 lost	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 lost	aux
21	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 forgotten	advcl
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 looks	det:predet
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 looks	nmod:poss
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 looks	amod
25	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lost	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 all	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 all	cc
28	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	31 all	advmod
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 all	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 all	cop
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 forgotten	parataxis
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 best	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 best	det
34	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 all	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 forgotten	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 forgotten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	forget	past · perfect	student	me	tree rules
2	meet	past	we		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not know	would · perfect · passive		student	tree rules
4	lose	present · perfect	I	my good looks	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Eventuality

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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