English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 107

How forgetful I am, and how careless you are not to tell the difference between a live un and a dead un.”

Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, not be

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 forgetful	advmod
2	forgetful	forgetful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 forgetful	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 forgetful	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 careless	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 careless	cc
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 careless	advmod
8	careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 forgetful	conj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 tell	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 tell	mark
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 careless	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 difference	det
15	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obj
16	between	between	ADP	_	19 un	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 un	det
18	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 un	amod
19	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 un	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 un	det
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 un	amod
23	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 un	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 forgetful	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 forgetful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	I	forgetful property	tree rules
2	be		I not said here		tree rules
3	not is	present	you	between a live un and a dead un; tell property	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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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