The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 9
The boy laughed at hearing these words again, and walked slowly on.
Who acts: boy · What happens: laugh, hear, walk · To what, where: words
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 5 hearing | mark |
| 5 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 laughed | advcl |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 words | det |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hearing | obj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 hearing | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 walked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 walked | cc |
| 11 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | conj |
| 12 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 11 walked | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADV | _ | 11 walked | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the boy | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | the boy not said here | this words | again | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | walk | past | the boy not said here | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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