The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 125
Have you forgotten the two poor maidens who helped you in your distress?
Who acts: you, two poor maidens, your · What happens: forget, help, distress · To what, where: two poor maidens, you, distress
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, two poor maidens, your), 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 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 forgotten | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 forgotten | nsubj |
| 3 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maidens | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 maidens | nummod |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 maidens | amod |
| 7 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 forgotten | obj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 helped | nsubj |
| 9 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 maidens | acl:relcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 helped | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 distress | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 distress | nmod:poss |
| 13 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 helped | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | present · perfect | you | the two poor maidens | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | past | the two poor maidens | you | your distress | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | distress | your | nom distress «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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