Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 25
“Rather speak of something at which one may laugh heartily.
Who acts: speak · What happens: laugh
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, 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 (speak), 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 | _ | 10 laugh | punct |
| 2 | Rather | rather | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 speak | det |
| 3 | speak | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laugh | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 something | case |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 speak | nmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 7 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 8 one | det |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 something | nmod |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 laugh | aux |
| 10 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | heartily | heartily | ADV | _ | 10 laugh | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 laugh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh in a quote | may | rather speak of something | heartily property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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