Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 9

Then he burst out laughing, for that he called fun; the others joined in--the whole party shouted and cried, while the hounds barked.

Who acts: child, others, whole party, hounds · What happens: burst out, laugh, call, join in, shout, cry · To what, where: fun · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (child, others, whole party, hounds), 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	3 burst	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 burst	nsubj
3	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 burst	compound:prt
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 burst	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 called	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 called	mark
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 called	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 called	nsubj
10	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 burst	conj
11	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 called	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 joined	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 others	det
14	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 joined	nsubj
15	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 burst	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	15 joined	obl
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 shouted	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 party	det
19	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 party	amod
20	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shouted	nsubj
21	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 burst	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cried	cc
23	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 shouted	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 barked	punct
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 barked	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hounds	det
27	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 barked	nsubj
28	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 cried	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 burst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	burst out	past	child		then	tree rules
2	laugh	gerund	child not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	past	child	fun		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	join in	past	the others			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	shout speech: express	past	the whole party			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	cry speech: express	past	the whole party not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	bark	past	the hounds			vn animal_sounds-38 «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: «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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