More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 31

And when he came home he made his old mother laugh with the story of how he served the football players and the four thieves.

Who acts: Tom, old mother · What happens: come, make, laugh, serve · To what, where: football players

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, old mother), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 made	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	advcl
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	nsubj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mother	nmod:poss
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mother	amod
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laugh	nsubj
11	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 made	ccomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 story	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 story	det
14	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laugh	obl
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 served	mark
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 served	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 served	nsubj
18	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 story	acl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 players	det
20	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 players	compound
21	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 served	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 thieves	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 thieves	det
24	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 thieves	nummod
25	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 players	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	Tom		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past	Tom			tree rules
3	laugh	infinitive	Tom's old mother		with the story	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	serve	past	Tom	the football players and the four thieves		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent player=Attribute

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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