The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 93

In he went, and there he found two pretty, laughing, teasing girls.

Who acts: sun · What happens: go, find, laugh, tease · To what, where: girls

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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	In	in	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 found	cc
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 found	expl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 pretty	nummod
10	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 found	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 laughing	punct
12	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 found	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 teasing	punct
14	teasing	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 laughing	conj
15	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 teasing	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	sun				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	sun		there	pretty property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	laugh	gerund	sun not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tease	gerund	sun not said here	girls			vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=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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