The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 59

‘Perhaps she has,’ laughed the girl, and as she spoke she seemed to hear an echo of her laughter coming from the horse, but of course that was nonsense.

Who acts: fairy, laughter, that · What happens: have, laugh, speak, seem, hear, come · To what, where: girl, echo, nonsense · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy, laughter, that), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	4 has	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 laughed	punct
6	’	'	CCONJ	_	7 laughed	cc
7	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 has	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laughed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spoke	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 spoke	cc
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 spoke	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 spoke	nsubj
14	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 laughed	conj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seemed	nsubj
16	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 spoke	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 hear	mark
18	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 seemed	xcomp
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 echo	det
20	echo	echo	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hear	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 laughter	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 laughter	nmod:poss
23	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 echo	nmod
24	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 laughter	acl
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 horse	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 horse	det
27	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 coming	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 nonsense	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 nonsense	cc
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 course	case
31	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 nonsense	obl
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 nonsense	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 nonsense	cop
34	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laughed	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	fairy		perhaps property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	past	fairy not said here	the girl		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme
3	speak speech: other	past	fairy			tree rules
4	seem	past	fairy			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	hear	to-infinitive	fairy not said here	a echo of fairy's laughter		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer echo=Stimulus
6	come	gerund	fairy's laughter not said here		from the horse	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from horse=Initial_Location
7	is a	past	that	nonsense	of course	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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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