Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 76
They often laugh at me at home about it, but that does not matter.
Who acts: sons, that · What happens: laugh, not matter · To what, where: home
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, that), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laugh | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 laugh | advmod |
| 3 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 laugh | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laugh | obl |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 home | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 matter | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 matter | cc |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 matter | nsubj |
| 13 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 matter | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 matter | advmod |
| 15 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 laugh | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laugh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | sons = son | home about home | at me; often property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not matter | present · do-support | that | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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