The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 95
‘I am afraid that something evil will happen to us,’ answered the horse.
Who acts: I, something evil · What happens: be, happen, answer · To what, where: us, horse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, something evil), 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 | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | cop |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 happen | mark |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 evil | compound |
| 7 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 happen | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 happen | aux |
| 9 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 afraid | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 us | case |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 happen | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen | future | something evil | us | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the horse | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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