The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 16
“There is something inside that would appall you,” he answered.
Who acts: something, Trusty · What happens: be, appall, answer · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something, Trusty), 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 answered | advcl |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 is | nsubj |
| 5 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 8 appall | mark |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 appall | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 appall | aux |
| 8 | appall | appall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 something | acl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 appall | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 appall | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | something | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | appall in a quote | would | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Trusty | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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