More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 111
A little while afterwards, he burst out into another fit of laughter on finding a crooked hazel stick, which he also put in his pocket; and a third time he again laughed extravagantly because he found a nut.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: burst out, find, put, laugh · To what, where: little, fit, crooked hazel stick, pocket, nut
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 little | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 burst | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 afterwards | mark |
| 4 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 7 burst | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 burst | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 burst | nsubj |
| 7 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 burst | compound:prt |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 fit | case |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 fit | det |
| 11 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 burst | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 laughter | case |
| 13 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fit | nmod |
| 14 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 15 finding | mark |
| 15 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 burst | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 stick | det |
| 17 | crooked | crooked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stick | amod |
| 18 | hazel | hazel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stick | compound |
| 19 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 finding | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 put | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 put | obj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 put | nsubj |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 put | advmod |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stick | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 pocket | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 27 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | obl | ||
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 laughed | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 laughed | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 time | det |
| 31 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 32 time | amod |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 laughed | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 laughed | nsubj |
| 34 | again | again | ADV | _ | 35 laughed | advmod |
| 35 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 burst | conj |
| 36 | extravagantly | extravagantly | ADV | _ | 35 laughed | advmod |
| 37 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 39 found | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 found | nsubj |
| 39 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 laughed | advcl |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 nut | det |
| 41 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 found | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst out | past | Jack | a little | another fit of laughter | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | gerund | Jack not said here | a crooked hazel stick | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Topic | ||||
| 3 | put | past | Jack | a crooked hazel stick | Jack's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme in pocket=Destination | |||
| 4 | laugh | past | Jack | again; time | extravagantly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | find | past | Jack | a nut | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Topic |
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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