The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 26
“You may trust me: I am not trying to entrap you.
Who acts: You, hair · What happens: trust, not try, entrap · To what, where: hair, you
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, hair), 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 | _ | 4 trust | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 trust | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 trust | aux |
| 4 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 trust | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 trying | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 trying | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 trying | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 trying | advmod |
| 10 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 trust | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 entrap | mark |
| 12 | entrap | entrap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 trying | xcomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 entrap | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 trust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust in a quote | may | You | hair | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not try in a quote | present · progressive | hair | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | entrap not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | hair not said here | you | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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