Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 31

The king must have laughed to himself at the thought of being scolded in this way; and he was so hungry that he did not mind the woman's angry words half so much as the loss of the cakes.

Who acts: king, woman · What happens: laugh, scold, be, not mind, word · To what, where: king, thought, way, angry words

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Cakes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, woman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laughed	nsubj:pass
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 laughed	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 laughed	aux
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 himself	case
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 laughed	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 thought	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thought	det
10	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laughed	obl
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 scolded	mark
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 scolded	aux:pass
13	scolded	scold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 thought	acl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 way	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 scolded	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 hungry	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hungry	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hungry	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hungry	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 hungry	advmod
22	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 laughed	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 mind	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 mind	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 mind	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 mind	advmod
27	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 hungry	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 woman	det
29	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 words	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 woman	case
31	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 words	amod
32	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 mind	obj
33	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	35 much	advmod
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 much	advmod
35	much	much	ADV	_	27 mind	advmod
36	as	as	ADP	_	38 loss	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 loss	det
38	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 much	nmod
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 cakes	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 cakes	det
41	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 loss	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	must · perfect · passive		the king	king	the thought		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	scold	gerund · passive		the thought not said here		this way		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»
3	is	past	king				hungry property	tree rules
4	not mind	past · do-support	king	the woman's angry words				vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
5	word		the woman					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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: «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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