The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 71
You seem to be an honest man, so I will trust you to go home.
Who acts: You, I · What happens: seem, be, trust, go · To what, where: honest man, you
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 seem | nsubj |
| 2 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 man | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 man | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seem | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trust | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 trust | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 trust | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 trust | aux |
| 12 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 seem | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 trust | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 trust | xcomp |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | You | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | You not said here | a honest man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | trust | future | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | I not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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