The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 109

‘But we must not forget the others,’ she said at last, and began to transform the fishes to their proper shapes.

Who acts: we, other · What happens: not forget, say, begin, transform · To what, where: others, last, fishes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, other), 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 forget	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 forget	cc
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 forget	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 forget	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 forget	advmod
6	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 others	det
8	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 forget	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 forget	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 forget	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 transform	mark
19	transform	transform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fishes	det
21	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 transform	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 shapes	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 shapes	nmod:poss
24	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 shapes	amod
25	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 transform	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not forget	must	we	the others			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	other		last		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	begin	past	other not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	transform	to-infinitive	other not said here	the fishes		to arms's proper shapes	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient

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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