The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 28
The fox laughed with delight, and rubbed her paws together with satisfaction.
Who acts: fox · What happens: laugh, rub · To what, where: paws
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 delight | case |
| 5 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laughed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rubbed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rubbed | cc |
| 8 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 paws | nmod:poss |
| 10 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rubbed | obj |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 rubbed | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 satisfaction | case |
| 13 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rubbed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the fox | with delight | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | rub | past | the fox not said here | Ungarische's paws | with satisfaction; together property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent paw=Destination with satisfaction=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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