The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 58

“What can have made me forget such an important thing?

Who acts: kind · What happens: make, forget · To what, where: kind, important thing

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind), 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	_	5 made	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 made	nsubj:pass
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	aux
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 made	obj
7	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	xcomp
8	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	11 thing	det:predet
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 thing	det
10	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forget	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	can · perfect · passive		kind					tree rules
2	forget in a quote	infinitive	kind not said here	such important thing					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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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