The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 42
“I cannot believe that he meant to deceive us.
Who acts: Beauty, elephant · What happens: not believe, mean, deceive · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beauty, elephant), 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 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 believe | advmod |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 meant | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 meant | nsubj |
| 8 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 deceive | mark |
| 10 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 meant | xcomp |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 deceive | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe in a quote | can | Beauty | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | past | elephant | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | deceive not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | elephant not said here | us | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
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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