The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 56
The poor boy was very much frightened, as I am sure you and I would have been in his place.
Who acts: I · What happens: frighten, be · To what, where: poor boy, place
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 frightened | aux:pass |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 frightened | advmod |
| 7 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sure | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 sure | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 sure | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sure | cop |
| 12 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 frightened | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 sure | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 place | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 place | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 place | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 place | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 place | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 place | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 place | nmod:poss |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 you | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | the poor boy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | would · perfect | I | boy's place | 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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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