The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 31
They quite forgot to thank Esben for what he had done for them.
Who acts: brothers, man · What happens: forget, not thank, do · To what, where: Esben
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, man), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 forgot | nsubj |
| 2 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 3 forgot | advmod |
| 3 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 thank | mark |
| 5 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 forgot | xcomp |
| 6 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 thank | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 what | case |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 thank | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 done | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 done | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | brothers = brother | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not thank speech: thank | to-infinitive | brothers = brother not said here | Esben | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent esben=Theme for what=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | man | for brothers = brother | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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