The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 92

But the wife of Iarlaid laughed as she heard him.

Who acts: wife · What happens: laugh, hear · To what, where: Manu

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 laughed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laughed	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Iarlaid	case
5	Iarlaid	Iarlaid	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wife	nmod
6	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 heard	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laughed	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the wife of Iarlaid						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	wife	Manu					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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