The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 50

Remember how good the Countess was to my mother.’

Who acts: you, Countess · What happens: remember, be

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Countess), 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	Remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 good	advmod
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mother	amod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Countess	det
5	Countess	Countess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mother	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mother	cop
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 mother	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Remember	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Remember	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	imperative	you not said here						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the Countess					to my good mother	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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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