The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 86
‘I do not believe you; you have sold them all to other people.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: not believe, sell · To what, where: you, wife, other people
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 believe | advmod |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 sold | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 sold | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sold | aux |
| 10 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 believe | parataxis |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sold | obj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 people | case |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 people | amod |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sold | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | present · do-support | I | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sell | present · perfect | you | wife | other people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to people=Recipient |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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