The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 77

‘It is the flower of remembrance,’ thought he, forgetting that it is also the flower of the dead.

Who acts: bouquet, flower · What happens: be, think, forget · To what, where: flower, soldier · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bouquet, flower), 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	_	5 flower	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 flower	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 flower	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flower	det
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thought	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 remembrance	case
7	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flower	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 flower	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 flower	punct
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thought	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 forgetting	punct
13	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 thought	advcl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 flower	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 flower	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 flower	cop
17	also	also	ADV	_	19 flower	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 flower	det
19	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forgetting	ccomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 dead	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dead	det
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 flower	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	bouquet	the flower	of remembrance	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	the flower	soldier		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
3	forget	gerund	the flower not said here			tree rules
4	is a	present	bouquet	the flower	of the dead	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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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