Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, sentence 19

The bean, who had prudently stayed behind on the shore, could not but laugh at the event, was unable to stop, and laughed so heartily that she burst.

Who acts: bean, straw · What happens: stay, not laugh, be, stop, laugh, burst · To what, where: shore, event

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bean, straw), 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 bean	det
2	bean	bean	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 laugh	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stayed	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 stayed	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stayed	aux
6	prudently	prudently	ADV	_	7 stayed	advmod
7	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 bean	acl:relcl
8	behind	behind	ADV	_	7 stayed	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 shore	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shore	det
11	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stayed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bean	punct
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 laugh	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 laugh	advmod
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 laugh	cc
16	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 event	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 event	det
19	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 laugh	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 unable	punct
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 unable	cop
22	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 laugh	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 stop	mark
24	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 unable	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 laughed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 laughed	cc
27	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 laugh	parataxis
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 heartily	advmod
29	heartily	heartily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 laughed	xcomp
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 burst	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 burst	nsubj
32	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 heartily	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 laugh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stay	past · perfect	the bean	the shore	behind, prudently property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location
2	not laugh	could	the bean	the event		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the bean not said here		unable property	tree rules
4	stop	to-infinitive	the bean not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	laugh	past			heartily property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	burst	past	straw			vn appear-48.1.1 «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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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