The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 95
At these words Alonzo burst into a shout of laughter; but it sounded so harsh and loud that Julia shrank away shuddering.
Who acts: Alonzo, laughter, Julia · What happens: burst, sound, shrink away, shudder, shout · To what, where: words, laughter
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alonzo, laughter, Julia), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 burst | obl |
| 4 | Alonzo | Alonzo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 burst | nsubj |
| 5 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 shout | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 shout | det |
| 8 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burst | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 laughter | case |
| 10 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shout | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 sounded | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 sounded | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sounded | nsubj |
| 14 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 burst | conj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 harsh | advmod |
| 16 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sounded | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 loud | cc |
| 18 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 harsh | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 shrank | mark |
| 20 | Julia | Julia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 shrank | nsubj |
| 21 | shrank | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 harsh | advcl |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 shrank | advmod |
| 23 | shuddering | shudder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 shrank | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past | Alonzo | this words | into a shout of laughter | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at word=Location | |||
| 2 | sound | past | laughter | harsh property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | shrink away | past | Julia | away property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | shudder | gerund | Julia not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | shout | laughter | nom shout «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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