Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 64
The chair-cushion in the corner burst with laughter when she saw it.
Who acts: chair cushion, cushion · What happens: burst, see · To what, where: laughter
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chair cushion, cushion), 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 | 4 cushion | det |
| 2 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cushion | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 chair | punct |
| 4 | cushion | cushion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burst | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 corner | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 corner | det |
| 7 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cushion | nmod |
| 8 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 laughter | case |
| 10 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burst | obl |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 saw | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 burst | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past | the chair cushion in the corner | with laughter | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | cushion | laughter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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