Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 65

They laughed at him, and again he began to talk roughly to the people.

Who acts: feet, man · What happens: laugh, begin, talk

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet, man), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 began	cc
7	again	again	ADV	_	9 began	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 talk	mark
11	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	11 talk	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 people	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 talk	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	feet = foot		at man	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	man	again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	talk	to-infinitive	man not said here		to the people; roughly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to people=Co-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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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