The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 76

He laughed immensely to himself at the thought of how cleverly he had managed and how he had cheated the little man.

Who acts: remainder · What happens: laugh, manage, cheat · To what, where: remainder, thought, little man

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (remainder), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	immensely	immensely	ADV	_	2 laughed	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 laughed	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 thought	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thought	det
8	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laughed	obl
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 managed	mark
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 managed	advmod
11	cleverly	cleverly	ADV	_	14 managed	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 managed	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 managed	aux
14	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 thought	acl:relcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cheated	cc
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 cheated	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cheated	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cheated	aux
19	cheated	cheat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 managed	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cheated	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	remainder		remainder	the thought	immensely property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
2	manage	past · perfect	remainder				cleverly property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cheat	past · perfect	remainder	the little man				vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Source

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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