The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 74
And then peals of mocking laughter rang through the air, and they guessed that this was another of the Fairy Carabosse’s unpleasant jokes.
Who acts: peals, Fairy Carabosse · What happens: mock, ring, guess, joke · To what, where: laughter, air
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peals, Fairy Carabosse), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rang | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 rang | advmod |
| 3 | peals | peal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rang | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 mocking | mark |
| 5 | mocking | mock | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 peals | acl |
| 6 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mocking | obj |
| 7 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rang | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 guessed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 guessed | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 guessed | nsubj |
| 14 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rang | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 another | mark |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 another | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 another | cop |
| 18 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 guessed | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 jokes | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Carabosse | det |
| 21 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Carabosse | compound |
| 22 | Carabosse | Carabosse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 jokes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Carabosse | case |
| 24 | unpleasant | unpleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 jokes | amod |
| 25 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 another | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mock | gerund | peals not said here | laughter | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laughter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ring | past | peals | the air | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location | |||
| 3 | guess | past | peals = peal | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | joke | the Fairy Carabosse | nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=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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