Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 94
And how can you forget the pain and grief at the loss of your son?"
Who acts: you · What happens: forget · To what, where: pain, loss
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 forget | cc |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 forget | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 forget | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 forget | nsubj |
| 5 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pain | det |
| 7 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forget | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 grief | cc |
| 9 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pain | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 loss | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 loss | det |
| 12 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forget | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 son | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 loss | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 forget | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | can | you | the pain and grief | the loss of your son | 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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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