The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 35
‘Your Imperial Majesty cannot really believe all that is written!
Who acts: Imperial Majesty · What happens: not believe, write · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Imperial Majesty), 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 | _ | 8 believe | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Majesty | amod |
| 4 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 believe | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 believe | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 believe | advmod |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 believe | advmod |
| 8 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 written | det:predet |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 written | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 written | aux:pass |
| 12 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 believe | ccomp |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | can | Your Imperial Majesty | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | write | present · passive | that | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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