Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 13

They certainly ought not to forget the most important person in the affair, as you really are.

Who acts: words, you · What happens: not forget, be · To what, where: important person, affair

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 forget	nsubj
2	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	6 forget	advmod
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 forget	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 forget	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 forget	mark
6	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 person	det
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 important	advmod
9	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 person	amod
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forget	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 affair	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 affair	det
13	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 person	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 are	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 are	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 are	nsubj
17	really	really	ADV	_	18 are	advmod
18	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 forget	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 forget	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not forget	ought	words = word	the important person		the affair		certainly property	tree rules
2	does	present	you						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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