The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 37

'No, I have forgotten; my memory is so bad.'

Who acts: I, memory · What happens: forget, be

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, memory), 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	_	6 forgotten	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 forgotten	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 forgotten	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 forgotten	aux
6	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 bad	advcl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 forgotten	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 memory	nmod:poss
9	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bad	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 bad	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 bad	advmod
12	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 bad	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 bad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present · perfect	I						tree rules
2	is	present	my memory					bad property	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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