Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments, sentence 15
At all this the wicked demon laughed till his sides shook--it tickled him so to see the mischief he had done.
Who acts: wicked demon, sides, side, demon · What happens: laugh, shake, tickle, see, do · To what, where: all, demon, mischief
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked demon, sides, side, demon), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 all | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 laughed | obl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 all | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 demon | det |
| 5 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 demon | amod |
| 6 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laughed | nsubj |
| 7 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 shook | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sides | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shook | nsubj |
| 11 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laughed | advcl |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 tickled | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tickled | nsubj |
| 14 | tickled | tickle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laughed | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tickled | obj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 tickled | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 tickled | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mischief | det |
| 20 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 see | obj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 done | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 done | aux |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 mischief | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the wicked demon | all | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | demon's sides | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | tickle | past | side | demon | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | side not said here | the mischief | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mischief=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | do | past · perfect | demon | the mischief not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality |
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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