More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 15

"Ha! ha! ha! you make me laugh so that I can scarcely buckle the saddle-straps.

Who acts: you, second brother · What happens: make, laugh, buckle · To what, where: second brother, saddle straps

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, second brother), 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	_	9 make	punct
2	Ha	ha	INTJ	_	9 make	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ha	punct
4	ha	ha	INTJ	_	2 Ha	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ha	punct
6	ha	ha	INTJ	_	2 Ha	discourse
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ha	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 make	nsubj
9	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 make	obj
11	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 make	xcomp
12	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 buckle	mark
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 so	fixed
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 buckle	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 buckle	aux
16	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	17 buckle	advmod
17	buckle	buckle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 laugh	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 straps	det
19	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 straps	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 saddle	punct
21	straps	strap	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 buckle	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	present	you	your second brother = brother		tree rules
2	laugh in a quote	infinitive	your second brother = brother not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	buckle in a quote	can	your second brother = brother	the saddle straps	scarcely property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strap=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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