The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 111

Well, one laughed, and another laughed, and they joked with the princess all the rest of the evening.

Who acts: one, another, princes · What happens: laugh, joke · To what, where: rest

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, another, princes), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 laughed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 laughed	cc
7	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	8 laughed	nsubj
8	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 joked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 joked	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 joked	nsubj
12	joked	joke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 princess	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 princess	det
15	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 joked	obl
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 rest	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rest	det
18	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 joked	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 evening	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 evening	det
21	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rest	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	one			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	past	another			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	joke speech: other	past	princes = prince	all rest of the evening	with the princess	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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