More English Fairy Tales, XLVII. My Own Self, sentence 15

The fairies might appear to be in a somewhat novel guise here as something to be afraid of.

Who acts: fairies · What happens: appear, be · To what, where: novel guise

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVII. My Own Self. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairies), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fairies	det
2	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 appear	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 appear	aux
4	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	11 guise	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 guise	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 guise	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 guise	det
9	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	10 novel	advmod
10	novel	novel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 guise	amod
11	guise	guise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appear	advcl
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 appear	advmod
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 something	case
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 appear	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	17 afraid	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 afraid	cop
17	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 something	acl
18	of	of	ADP	_	17 afraid	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 appear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	appear	might	the fairies	here	as something	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	the fairies not said here	a novel guise		tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	the fairies not said here		afraid 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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