The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 17

I am an old man--I had forgotten!' cried the chief. '

Who acts: I, old man · What happens: be, forget, cry · To what, where: old man, chief

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (I, old man), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 man	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 man	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cried	nsubj
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 forgotten	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 forgotten	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 forgotten	aux
9	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 man	acl:relcl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 forgotten	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 forgotten	punct
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 chief	det
14	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cried	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	I	a old man	tree rules
2	forget	past · perfect	I	a old man not said here	tree rules
3	cry speech: express	past	a old man	the chief	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Topic

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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