The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 80

‘It is because I know you will soon forget all about me,’ said she, and though he laughed at her and told her it was impossible, she did not cease to believe it.

Who acts: other, I, you, princess, prince · What happens: be, know, forget, say, laugh, tell · To what, where: princess, other · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, I, you, princess), 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	_	3 is	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 is	nsubj
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 know	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 know	nsubj
6	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 is	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 forget	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 forget	aux
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 forget	advmod
10	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 know	ccomp
11	all	all	ADV	_	13 me	advmod
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 forget	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 laughed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 laughed	cc
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 laughed	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 laughed	nsubj
22	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 laughed	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 told	cc
26	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 laughed	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	iobj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 impossible	expl
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 impossible	cop
30	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 told	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 cease	punct
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 cease	nsubj
33	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 cease	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 cease	advmod
35	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 impossible	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 believe	mark
37	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 cease	xcomp
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 believe	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	be	present	other				tree rules
2	know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	forget	future	you			about me; soon property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	laugh	past	prince			at princess	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	tell speech: assert	past	prince not said here		princess		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
7	is	past				impossible property	tree rules
8	not cease	past · do-support	princess				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
9	believe	to-infinitive	princess not said here	other			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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