The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 47
‘Ho, ho!’ she laughed terribly.
Who acts: Ho · What happens: laugh
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ho), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ho | punct |
| 2 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ho | punct |
| 4 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ho | appos |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 ho | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 ho | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 laughed | nsubj |
| 8 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 8 laughed | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | Ho | terribly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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 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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