The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 77
I do not myself believe that he always was a pig.
Who acts: I, King · What happens: not believe, be · To what, where: pig · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, King), 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 | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 believe | advmod |
| 4 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 pig | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pig | nsubj |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 pig | advmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 pig | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pig | det |
| 11 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believe | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | present · do-support | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | King | a pig | always property | tree rules |
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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