The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 83

When we are once under shelter we can laugh at her.’

Who acts: we · What happens: be, laugh · To what, where: shelter

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 (we), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 once	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 once	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 once	cop
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 laugh	advmod
5	under	under	ADP	_	6 shelter	case
6	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laugh	obl
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 laugh	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 laugh	aux
9	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 laugh	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 laugh	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 laugh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	we					once property	tree rules
2	laugh	can	we			shelter		at Carabosse	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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