The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 42

“Oh!” cried the mother, in horror, “you are very likely sleeping with a troll!

Who acts: mother, you · What happens: cry, be, sleep · To what, where: horror · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, you), 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 cried	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 cried	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mother	det
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 horror	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 horror	case
10	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 likely	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 likely	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 likely	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 likely	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 likely	advmod
16	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cried	conj
17	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 likely	xcomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 troll	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 troll	det
20	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sleeping	obl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the mother	horror		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in horror=Location
2	is in a quote	present	you		likely property	tree rules
3	sleep in a quote	gerund	you not said here		with a troll	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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