Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 7
But at this the Carl burst into a roar of laughter, so that the eardrums of the warriors present almost burst inside of their heads.
Who acts: laughter · What happens: burst, roar · To what, where: Carl, eardrums, heads
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (laughter), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 burst | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Carl | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 Carl | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Carl | det |
| 5 | Carl | Carl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 burst | obl |
| 6 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 roar | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 roar | det |
| 9 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burst | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 laughter | case |
| 11 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 roar | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 burst | punct |
| 13 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 22 burst | mark |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 burst | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 eardrums | det |
| 16 | eardrums | eardrum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 burst | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 warriors | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 warriors | det |
| 19 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 eardrums | nmod |
| 20 | present | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 burst | aux |
| 21 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 22 burst | advmod |
| 22 | burst | burst | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 burst | conj |
| 23 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 26 heads | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 heads | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 heads | nmod:poss |
| 26 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 burst | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past | the Carl | into a roar of laughter | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at carl=Location | ||||
| 2 | burst | present · passive | the eardrums of the warriors | eardrums's heads | almost property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | roar | laughter | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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