The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 64
No, I can’t believe that it is anything but witchcraft!
Who acts: I, business · What happens: not believe, be · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, business), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 believe | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 believe | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 believe | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 believe | advmod |
| 6 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 anything | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 anything | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 anything | cop |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 believe | ccomp |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 witchcraft | cc |
| 12 | witchcraft | witchcraft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 anything | conj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | can | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | business | anything | 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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