The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 40
‘How can you believe such nonsense?
Who acts: you · What happens: believe · To what, where: such nonsense
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 believe | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 nonsense | amod |
| 7 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believe | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | can | you | such nonsense | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nonsense=Stimulus |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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