The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 9

The year after, it was Cinderlad’s turn, but when he made ready to go the others laughed at him, and mocked him.

Who acts: year, man, others · What happens: be, make, go, laugh, mock · To what, where: turn, man

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (year, man, others), 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 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turn	nsubj
3	after	after	ADV	_	2 year	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 year	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 turn	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turn	cop
7	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 turn	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Cinderlad	case
9	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 made	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	nsubj
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turn	parataxis
15	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 made	xcomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 go	mark
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ready	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 others	det
19	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 laughed	nsubj
20	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 go	parataxis
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 laughed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mocked	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 mocked	cc
25	mocked	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 made	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 mocked	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the year	Cinderlad's turn		tree rules
2	make	past	man		ready property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	go	to-infinitive	man not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	laugh	past	the others		at man	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	mock	past	man not said here	man		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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