The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 90
But the puma easily saw through these excuses, and laughed at him.
Who acts: puma · What happens: see, laugh · To what, where: excuses
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (puma), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 puma | det |
| 3 | puma | puma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 5 saw | advmod |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 excuses | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 excuses | det |
| 8 | excuses | excuse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 laughed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 laughed | cc |
| 11 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 laughed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the puma | this excuses | easily property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | laugh | past | the puma not said here | at puma | 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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