The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 33
The girls were delighted, and laughed and teased each other.
Who acts: girls · What happens: be, laugh, tease · To what, where: each
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls), 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 girls | det |
| 2 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 laughed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 laughed | cc |
| 7 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | parataxis |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 teased | cc |
| 9 | teased | tease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laughed | conj |
| 10 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 9 teased | obj |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 each | fixed |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the girls | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | tease | past | each | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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