The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 107

‘Just think of it!’ said Otto laughing.

Who acts: Otto · What happens: think, say, laugh · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Otto), 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	_	3 think	punct
2	Just	just	ADV	_	3 think	advmod
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	obl
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Otto	Otto	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 said	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	infinitive		of bite	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Otto		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	laugh	gerund	Otto not said here		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 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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