The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 44

She laughed at him for thinking that any fish would let itself be caught by a hare, especially such a young one; but as she had the rheumatism very badly, and could get no food herself, she let him go.

Who acts: thaw, fish, hare · What happens: laugh, think, let, catch, have, get · To what, where: fish, rheumatism, food, Hare · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thaw, fish, hare), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 thinking	mark
6	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 laughed	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 let	mark
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 fish	det
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 let	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 let	aux
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thinking	ccomp
12	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 let	obj
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 caught	aux:pass
14	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 let	xcomp
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 hare	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hare	det
17	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 caught	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 one	punct
19	especially	especially	ADV	_	23 one	advmod
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	23 one	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 one	det
22	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 one	amod
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hare	appos
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 had	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 rheumatism	det
30	rheumatism	rheumatism	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 badly	advmod
32	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 had	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 get	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 get	cc
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 get	aux
36	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	28 had	parataxis
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 food	det
38	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 get	obj
39	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 get	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 let	punct
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 let	nsubj
42	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 get	conj
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 let	obj
44	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 let	xcomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	thaw		at Hare	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	gerund	thaw not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	let	would	any fish	fish		tree rules
4	catch	infinitive · passive	a hare			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	have	past	thaw	the rheumatism	badly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rheumatism=Patient
6	get	could		no food	thaw obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus
7	let	infinitive	thaw	Hare		tree rules
8	go	infinitive	Hare not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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