The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 53

‘Good, good!’ said the King laughing.

Who acts: King · What happens: say, laugh · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:2381): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Good	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the King						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	gerund	the King 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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