Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 146
"I did not," said he; "I forgot."
Who acts: boy · What happens: not do, say, forget · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 did | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 did | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 forgot | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 forgot | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 forgot | nsubj |
| 12 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 forgot | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | past | boy | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | forget in a quote | past | boy | 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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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