The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 47

I cannot believe that with that lovely face she can be as ill-tempered and contemptible as they say.

Who acts: I, things · What happens: not believe, temper, say · To what, where: visit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, things), 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	4 believe	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 believe	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 believe	advmod
4	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 tempered	mark
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 face	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 face	det
8	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 face	amod
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tempered	obl
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tempered	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tempered	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 tempered	aux:pass
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 tempered	mark
14	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tempered	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 ill	punct
16	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 believe	ccomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 contemptible	cc
18	contemptible	contemptible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tempered	conj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 say	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 say	nsubj
21	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 contemptible	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not believe	can	I			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	temper	can · passive		visit	with that lovely face	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	things = thing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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