Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 25

"Indeed, indeed!" said the king, and he laughed to himself. "

Who acts: king · What happens: say, laugh · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Three Answers.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	_	2 Indeed	punct
2	Indeed	indeed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 indeed	punct
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 Indeed	advmod
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 laughed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 laughed	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laughed	nsubj
13	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 laughed	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 laughed	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	past	King		King				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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