The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 20

Then the rest of the company began to laugh at him, and the King said: “If you have nothing else to give, at least you might go and fetch the Terrible Head.”

Who acts: rest, King, you · What happens: begin, laugh, say, have, give, go · To what, where: nothing, least, Terrible Head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, King, you), 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	7 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rest	det
3	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 company	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 company	det
6	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rest	nmod
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 laugh	mark
9	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 laugh	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 King	det
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 go	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 go	punct
19	If	if	SCONJ	_	21 have	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
21	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 go	advcl
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 have	obj
23	else	else	ADV	_	22 nothing	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 give	mark
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 nothing	acl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 least	case
28	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 go	obl
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 go	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 go	aux
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fetch	cc
33	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 go	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Head	det
35	Terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Head	amod
36	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fetch	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 go	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the rest of the company			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	laugh	to-infinitive	the rest of the company not said here				at boy	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the King					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
5	give in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	nothing not said here				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	go in a quote	might	you		least			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at least=Location
7	fetch in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the Terrible Head				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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