More English Fairy Tales, LXXII. King John and the Abbot, sentence 5
This would have sounded somewhat bold in prose.
What happens: sound · To what, where: This
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXII. King John and the Abbot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 sounded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sounded | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sounded | aux |
| 4 | sounded | sound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 6 bold | advmod |
| 6 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sounded | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 prose | case |
| 8 | prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bold | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | would · perfect · passive | This | bold property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location 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: «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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