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title: Forget my tears and my entreaties; forget all that I have said or do… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Forget my tears and my entreaties; forget all that I have said or done." Who acts: you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 103

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Forget my tears and my entreaties; forget all that I have said or done."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** forget, say, do · **To what, where:** tears, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. 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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:185:103
# text = Forget my tears and my entreaties; forget all that I have said or done."
1	Forget	forget	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	forget	forget	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | imperative | you *not said here* | my tears and my entreaties |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **forget** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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