The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 54
“You forgot one thing,” she said, when they were alone.
Who acts: You, combat, things · What happens: forget, say, be · To what, where: one thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, combat, things), 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 | _ | 3 forgot | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 forgot | nsubj |
| 3 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 thing | nummod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forgot | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 forgot | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 forgot | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 alone | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 alone | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 alone | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 alone | cop |
| 14 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget in a quote | past | You | one thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | combat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | things = thing | alone 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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