More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 5
The thing only laughed and screeched and mocked, as long as Tom went on swearing, but so soon as his breath gave out--
Who acts: thing, Tom, breath · What happens: laugh, screech, mock, go, swear, give out
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, Tom, breath), 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 | 2 thing | det |
| 2 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 laughed | advmod |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 screeched | cc |
| 6 | screeched | screech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughed | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 mocked | cc |
| 8 | mocked | mock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 screeched | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 long | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 long | advmod |
| 11 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 mocked | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 went | mark |
| 13 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 long | advcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 swearing | case |
| 16 | swearing | swear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gave | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 gave | cc |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 soon | advmod |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 gave | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 gave | mark |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 breath | nmod:poss |
| 23 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | nsubj |
| 24 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughed | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 gave | compound:prt |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the thing | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | screech | past | the thing not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mock | past | the thing not said here | long property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Tom | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | swear | gerund | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | give out | past | Tom's breath | soon property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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