The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 26

The marten laughed and answered: “Did you ever hear anything so strange?

Who acts: marten, you · What happens: laugh, answer, do, hear · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marten, you), 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 marten	det
2	marten	marten	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 answered	cc
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	conj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Did	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 Did	punct
8	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	conj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 hear	nsubj
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 hear	advmod
11	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Did	ccomp
12	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 hear	obj
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 strange	advmod
14	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hear	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the marten				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	answer speech: ask	past	the marten not said here				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do in a quote	past	the marten not said here				tree rules
4	hear in a quote	present	you	anything	ever	strange property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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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