The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 37

The Prince and the Fairy (for that was who she was) had no sooner looked at one another than they went into fits of laughter, and cried at the same moment, “Oh, what a funny nose!”

Who acts: that, Prince, spectacles · What happens: be, have, look, go, cry · To what, where: fits

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, Prince, spectacles), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 had	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Fairy	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Fairy	det
5	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Prince	conj
6	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 who	mark
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 who	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 who	cop
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 had	nsubj
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 was	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 who	acl:relcl
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 who	punct
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 sooner	det
16	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 looked	advmod
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	advcl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 one	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 looked	obl
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	19 one	fixed
21	than	than	SCONJ	_	23 went	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 looked	advcl
24	into	into	ADP	_	25 fits	case
25	fits	fit	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 went	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 laughter	case
27	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fits	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 cried	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cried	cc
30	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	conj
31	at	at	ADP	_	34 moment	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 moment	det
33	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 moment	amod
34	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cried	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 what	punct
36	“	"	PUNCT	_	39 what	punct
37	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	39 what	discourse
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Oh	punct
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 cried	obl
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 nose	det
41	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 nose	amod
42	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 what	nsubj
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 what	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	39 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that				tree rules
2	have	past	the Prince and the Fairy				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	look	past	the Prince and the Fairy not said here			at one; soon property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at one=Theme
4	go	past	spectacles = spectacle	fits of laughter			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into fit=Initial_Location
5	cry speech: express	past	the Prince and the Fairy not said here		moment		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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 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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