The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 43
This was the flower that laughs, and no one who looked at it could help laughing too.
Who acts: This, flower, one · What happens: be, laugh, look, help · To what, where: flower
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, flower, one), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 flower | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flower | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flower | det |
| 4 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 laughs | nsubj |
| 6 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 flower | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 help | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 help | cc |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 help | nsubj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 looked | nsubj |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | acl:relcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 looked | obl |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 help | aux |
| 16 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 laughs | ccomp |
| 17 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 help | xcomp |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 laughing | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flower | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the flower | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | laugh | present | the flower | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look | past | no one | at flower | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | help | could | no one | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | laugh | gerund | no one 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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