Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 20
I'll be in it too!" cried Jack the Dullard; and his two brothers burst out laughing at him, and rode away.
Who acts: I, youth, two brothers · What happens: be, cry, burst out, laugh, ride away · To what, where: country, Jack
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, youth, two brothers), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 it | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 it | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 I | conj |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 1 I | advmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 I | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 I | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Dullard | det |
| 12 | Dullard | Dullard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Jack | flat |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 burst | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 burst | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 brothers | nummod |
| 17 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 burst | nsubj |
| 18 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 burst | compound:prt |
| 20 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 burst | advcl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 laughing | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rode | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rode | cc |
| 25 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | conj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 rode | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | I not said here | country | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | youth | Jack | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Topic | ||||
| 3 | burst out in a quote | past | Jack's two brothers | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | laugh in a quote | gerund | Jack's two brothers not said here | at Jack | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | ride away in a quote | past | youth not said here | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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