The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 68

'I can't forget a person I have never known,' was the rude answer.

Who acts: I · What happens: not forget, not know, be · To what, where: person, rude answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 forget	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 forget	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 forget	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 forget	advmod
5	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 answer	csubj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forget	obj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 known	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 known	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 known	advmod
11	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 person	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 forget	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 forget	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 answer	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 answer	det
16	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 answer	amod
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not forget	can	I	a person	tree rules
2	not know	present · perfect	I	a person not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus
3	be speech: assert	past		the rude answer	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: «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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