The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 116
But he has forgotten me, and my promise I must keep.’
Who acts: Sigurd, promise, my · What happens: forget, keep, promise · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Sigurd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sigurd, promise, my), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 forgotten | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 forgotten | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgotten | aux |
| 4 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 forgotten | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 keep | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 keep | cc |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 promise | nmod:poss |
| 9 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keep | nsubj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 keep | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 keep | aux |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 forgotten | parataxis |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 keep | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | present · perfect | Sigurd | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | must | my promise | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | promise | my | nom promise «communication 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 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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