Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 52
And as they laughed over the joke as a good joke, we may laugh over it too!
Who acts: cat, we · What happens: laugh · To what, where: joke
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, we), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 laugh | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 laughed | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 laugh | advcl |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 joke | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 joke | det |
| 7 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughed | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 joke | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 joke | det |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 joke | amod |
| 11 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughed | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 laugh | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 laugh | aux |
| 15 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 laugh | obl |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 laugh | advmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 laugh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | cat | the joke | as a good joke | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | laugh | may | we | joke | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP 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: «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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