The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 127

How wide and empty!’ and he threw himself on Gerda, and she laughed and wept for joy.

Who acts: Kay, Gerda · What happens: throw, laugh, weep · To what, where: Kay, Gerda

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, Gerda), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 wide	advmod
2	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 threw	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 empty	cc
4	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wide	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 wide	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 wide	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 threw	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 threw	nsubj
9	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 threw	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 Gerda	case
12	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 threw	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 laughed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 laughed	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 laughed	nsubj
16	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 threw	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wept	cc
18	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 laughed	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 joy	case
20	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wept	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	Kay	Kay	Gerda		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on gerda=Destination
2	laugh	past	Gerda				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	weep	past	Gerda not said here			for joy	vn breathe-40.1.2 «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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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