The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 11

Everybody burst into shouts of laughter at the sight of him, and the men laid down the coffin and laughed too, till their sides nearly split.

Who acts: Everybody, men, sides · What happens: burst, shout, lay down, laugh, split, sight · To what, where: sight, coffin, husband

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everybody, men, sides), 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	Everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 burst	nsubj
2	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 shouts	case
4	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 burst	ccomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 laughter	case
6	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shouts	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 sight	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sight	det
9	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shouts	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sight	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 laid	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 laid	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 men	det
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 laid	nsubj
16	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 burst	conj
17	down	down	ADP	_	19 coffin	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 coffin	det
19	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 laid	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 laughed	cc
21	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 burst	conj
22	too	too	ADV	_	21 laughed	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 split	punct
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 split	mark
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sides	nmod:poss
26	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 split	nsubj
27	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	28 split	advmod
28	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 laughed	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 burst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	burst	past	Everybody				tree rules
2	shout speech: express	present	Everybody not said here		the sight of husband	of laughter	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lay down	participle	the men	the coffin			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Result
4	laugh	past	Everybody not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	split	past	clothes's sides			nearly property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	sight			husband			nom sight «cognition 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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