The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 40
‘Is it possible I can have forgotten her so soon?
Who acts: peace, I · What happens: be, forget · To what, where: Bellah
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 (peace, 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 | _ | 4 possible | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 possible | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 possible | nsubj |
| 4 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 forgotten | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 forgotten | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 forgotten | aux |
| 8 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 possible | acl:relcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 forgotten | obj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 soon | advmod |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 forgotten | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | peace | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forget | can · perfect | I | Bellah | soon 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 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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