The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 83
Then Jonas began to laugh; yes, he laughed so that he nearly burst his skin belt.
Who acts: Jonas, echo · What happens: begin, laugh, burst · To what, where: skin belt
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jonas, echo), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | Jonas | Jonas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 laugh | mark |
| 5 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 laughed | punct |
| 7 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 10 laughed | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 laughed | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 laughed | nsubj |
| 10 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 11 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 burst | mark |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 so | fixed |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 burst | nsubj |
| 14 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 15 burst | advmod |
| 15 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 laughed | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 belt | nmod:poss |
| 17 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 belt | compound |
| 18 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 burst | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Jonas | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | laugh | to-infinitive | Jonas not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | laugh | past | echo | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | burst | past | echo | echo's skin belt | nearly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location belt=Theme |
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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