The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 74

‘Yes, of course,’ said the king; ‘really I forget things nowadays, with all the bustle we have had of late.’

Who acts: I, we · What happens: say, forget, have · To what, where: king, things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we), 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	_	8 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 of	punct
4	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	2 Yes	advmod
5	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 of	fixed
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 forget	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 forget	punct
13	really	really	ADV	_	15 forget	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 forget	nsubj
15	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
16	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 forget	obj
17	nowadays	nowadays	ADV	_	15 forget	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 bustle	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 bustle	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bustle	det
22	bustle	bustle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obl
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 had	aux
25	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 forget	parataxis
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 late	case
27	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 had	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the king		tree rules
2	forget	present	I	things	nowadays property	tree rules
3	have	present · perfect	we		with all bustle	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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