Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 116
I can trust you, for I believe that I do love you.
Who acts: I · What happens: trust, believe, love · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 trust | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 trust | aux |
| 3 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 trust | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 believe | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 believe | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 believe | nsubj |
| 8 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 trust | parataxis |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 love | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 love | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 love | aux |
| 12 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 believe | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 love | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | can | I | you | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | believe | present | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | love | present · do-support | I | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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: «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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