The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 59
She would not be satisfied with this answer, and urged him more and more to tell her why he had laughed.
Who acts: mare, husband · What happens: not be, urge, tell, laugh · To what, where: husband, mare · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mare, husband), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 satisfied | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 satisfied | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 satisfied | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 satisfied | cop |
| 5 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 answer | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 answer | det |
| 8 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 satisfied | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 urged | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 urged | cc |
| 11 | urged | urge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 satisfied | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 urged | iobj |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 urged | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 more | cc |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 more | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 tell | mark |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 urged | advcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | iobj |
| 19 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 laughed | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 laughed | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 laughed | aux |
| 22 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 tell | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | would | mare | with this answer; satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | urge | past | mare not said here | husband | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | mare not said here | mare | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | laugh | past · perfect | husband | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP 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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