The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 57

‘Botheration!’ said the Soldier, ‘I had clean forgotten it!’

Who acts: Botheration, Soldier · What happens: say, forget · To what, where: Botheration · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Botheration, Soldier), 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	_	2 Botheration	punct
2	Botheration	botheration	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Botheration	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Botheration	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Soldier	det
7	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 forgotten	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 forgotten	aux
12	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 had	xcomp
13	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	ccomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 forgotten	obj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 forgotten	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 forgotten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Botheration						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	forget	past · perfect	the Soldier	Botheration					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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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