The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 44

As it is, your friends the water-demons would think you meant to laugh at them, when they found that I was the feast.”

Who acts: plenty, friends, you, I · What happens: be, think, mean, laugh, find · To what, where: feast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plenty, friends, you, I), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 is	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 is	nsubj
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 think	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friends	nmod:poss
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 think	nsubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 demons	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 demons	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 water	punct
10	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 think	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 think	aux
12	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 meant	nsubj
14	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 think	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 laugh	mark
16	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 meant	xcomp
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 laugh	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 found	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 found	nsubj
22	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 meant	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 feast	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 feast	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 feast	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 feast	det
27	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 found	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 think	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	be	present	plenty			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	would	your friends			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	mean	past	you			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	laugh not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		at demons = demon	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	find	past	friends = friend			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	I	the feast		tree rules

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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