The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 46
The men laughed at him for being so childish, and rode on after their master.
Who acts: men · What happens: laugh, be, ride on
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laughed | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 childish | case |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 childish | cop |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 childish | advmod |
| 9 | childish | childish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 laughed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rode | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rode | cc |
| 12 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 rode | compound:prt |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 master | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 master | nmod:poss |
| 16 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rode | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the men | at king | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | childish property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ride on | past | the men not said here | after arms's master | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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