The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 108
And the tortoise, when he thinks about it, laughs still.
Who acts: stag, tortoise · What happens: think, laugh
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stag, tortoise), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 laughs | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tortoise | det |
| 3 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laughs | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thinks | punct |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 thinks | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thinks | nsubj |
| 7 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tortoise | acl:relcl |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thinks | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tortoise | punct |
| 11 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 laughs | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 laughs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | stag | about grass | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | laugh | present | the tortoise | still | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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 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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