The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 21

It was enough to make anyone laugh, certainly.

Who acts: bundle, anyone · What happens: be, make, laugh · To what, where: anyone

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 (bundle, anyone), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 enough	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 enough	cop
3	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 enough	advcl
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 make	obj
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 make	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 certainly	punct
9	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	3 enough	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 enough	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	bundle		enough property	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive	bundle not said here	anyone		tree rules
3	laugh	infinitive	anyone not said here			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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