The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 4

Yours?" he answered, with a rude laugh. "

Who acts: Yours · What happens: answer

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yours), 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	Yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 answered	nsubj
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Yours	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Yours	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 answered	nsubj
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 laugh	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 laugh	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 laugh	det
9	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 laugh	amod
10	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	ccomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 laugh	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 laugh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert in a quote	past	Yours						vn reciprocate-112-1 «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: «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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