The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 114
‘How can you do that, and how can I tell if I can trust you?’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: do, tell, trust · To what, where: that, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 do | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tell | cc |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 tell | advmod |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | aux |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | nsubj |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | conj |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 trust | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 trust | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 trust | aux |
| 16 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tell | ccomp |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 trust | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | you | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | can | I | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | trust a condition, not said to happen | can | I | you | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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