The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 15
They all laughed him to scorn, because he was so stupid, feeling sure he wouldn’t do anything.
Who acts: sons, end · What happens: laugh, scorn, be, feel, not do · To what, where: end, anything
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, end), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laughed | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 laughed | advmod |
| 3 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laughed | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 scorn | mark |
| 6 | scorn | scorn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 laughed | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stupid | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 stupid | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stupid | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stupid | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 stupid | advmod |
| 12 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 scorn | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 feeling | punct |
| 14 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 stupid | advcl |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 feeling | xcomp |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 18 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 do | advmod |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sure | ccomp |
| 20 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 do | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | sons = son | end | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | scorn | to-infinitive | sons = son not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | end | stupid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feel | gerund | end not said here | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | not do | would | end | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
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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