The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 43
Then he replied: “I am a merchant,” and opening his apron, he let her peep in.
Who acts: John, I, thing · What happens: reply, be, open, let, peep · To what, where: merchant, apron, thing · 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 (John, I, thing), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 replied | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 merchant | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 merchant | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 merchant | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 merchant | det |
| 9 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 merchant | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 merchant | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 opening | cc |
| 13 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 merchant | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 apron | nmod:poss |
| 15 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 opening | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 let | nsubj |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | peep | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADV | _ | 20 peep | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | John | then | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | John | a merchant | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | open | gerund | I not said here | John's apron | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location apron=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let | past | John | thing | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | peep | infinitive | thing not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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