The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 67

I wonder why they both told me not to trust to appearances?

Who acts: I, jewels · What happens: wonder, tell, not trust · To what, where: me, appearances · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, jewels), 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	2 wonder	nsubj
2	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 told	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
5	both	both	ADV	_	6 told	advmod
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wonder	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 trust	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 trust	mark
10	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 appearances	case
12	appearances	appearance	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 trust	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wonder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	present	I			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	jewels = jewel	me	both property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not trust not said to happen	to-infinitive	jewels = jewel not said here	appearances		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to appearance=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 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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