The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 99

Then the shepherd ventured to laugh at last; and he laughed so long and so loud that when the Lord Chamberlain came early in the morning, expecting to find only his bones, the tears were still running down his cheeks from laughter.

Who acts: shepherd, Lord Chamberlain, tears · What happens: venture, laugh, come, expect, find, run down · To what, where: last, bones, cheeks, laughter

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, Lord Chamberlain, tears), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 ventured	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shepherd	det
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ventured	nsubj
4	ventured	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 laugh	mark
6	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ventured	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 last	case
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 laugh	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 laughed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 laughed	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 laughed	nsubj
12	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ventured	conj
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 long	advmod
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 laughed	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 loud	cc
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 loud	advmod
17	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 laughed	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 came	mark
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 came	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Chamberlain	det
21	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Chamberlain	compound
22	Chamberlain	Chamberlain	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 loud	advcl
24	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 came	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 morning	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 morning	det
27	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 expecting	punct
29	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 came	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 find	mark
31	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 expecting	xcomp
32	only	only	ADV	_	34 bones	advmod
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 bones	nmod:poss
34	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 find	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 running	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 tears	det
37	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 running	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 running	aux
39	still	still	ADV	_	40 running	advmod
40	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 expecting	conj
41	down	down	ADP	_	40 running	compound:prt
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 cheeks	nmod:poss
43	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 running	obj
44	from	from	ADP	_	45 laughter	case
45	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 running	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ventured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	venture	past	the shepherd			then		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	laugh	to-infinitive	the shepherd not said here		last			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	laugh	past	shepherd				long property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	the Lord Chamberlain			morning	early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	expect	gerund	the Lord Chamberlain not said here					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Lord Chamberlain not said here	shepherd's bones				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Topic
7	run down	past · progressive	the tears	shepherd's cheeks	laughter	still		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cheek=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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