The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 75

The day is now forgotten, and may be that is the reason why people say how Maurice Connor has stopped sending the luck-token to his mother.

Who acts: that, people, Maurice · What happens: forget, be, say, stop, send · To what, where: reason, luck token, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, people, Maurice), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forgotten	obl:unmarked
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 forgotten	aux:pass
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 forgotten	advmod
5	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reason	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 reason	cc
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 reason	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 reason	cop
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 reason	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 reason	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 reason	det
13	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forgotten	obl
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 say	advmod
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 say	nsubj
16	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 reason	acl:relcl
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 stopped	advmod
18	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 stopped	nsubj
19	Connor	Connor	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Maurice	flat
20	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 stopped	aux
21	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 say	ccomp
22	sending	send	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 stopped	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 token	det
24	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 token	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 luck	punct
26	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sending	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 mother	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mother	nmod:poss
29	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sending	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 forgotten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	forget	present · passive				now; day	tree rules
2	is a	may	that	the reason			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	people				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	stop	present · perfect	Maurice				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	send	gerund	Maurice not said here	the luck token	Maurice's mother		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent token=Theme to mother=Destination

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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