Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 22

The result of her observation must have been satisfactory, for presently she laughed, and said:

Who acts: result, Huntingdon · What happens: be, laugh, say, result, observe · To what, where: observation · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (result, Huntingdon), 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 result	det
2	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 satisfactory	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 observation	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 observation	nmod:poss
5	observation	observation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 result	nmod
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 satisfactory	aux
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 satisfactory	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 satisfactory	cop
9	satisfactory	satisfactory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 laughed	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 laughed	mark
12	presently	presently	ADV	_	14 laughed	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 laughed	nsubj
14	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 satisfactory	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 satisfactory	conj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	must · perfect	the result of Huntingdon's observation		satisfactory property	tree rules
2	laugh	past	Huntingdon		presently property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the result of Huntingdon's observation not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	result			Huntingdon's observation		nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
5	observe		Huntingdon			nom observation «act 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: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (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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