The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 11
But, as was natural, they only laughed at the Star Gazer.
Who acts: people · What happens: be, laugh · To what, where: Star Gazer
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 laughed | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 natural | mark |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 natural | cop |
| 5 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 laughed | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 natural | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 laughed | nsubj |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 laughed | advmod |
| 9 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 Gazer | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Gazer | det |
| 12 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Gazer | compound |
| 13 | Gazer | Gazer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 laughed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | people not said here | natural property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | people | the Star Gazer | 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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