The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 45

The hobgoblin laughed till his sides ached, but still the tiny bits of glass flew about.

Who acts: hobgoblin, sides, tiny bits · What happens: laugh, ache, fly

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hobgoblin, sides, tiny bits), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hobgoblin	det
2	hobgoblin	hobgoblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 ached	mark
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sides	nmod:poss
6	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ached	nsubj
7	ached	ache	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flew	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 flew	cc
10	still	still	ADV	_	16 flew	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bits	det
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bits	amod
13	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 flew	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 glass	case
15	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bits	nmod
16	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	conj
17	about	about	ADV	_	16 flew	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the hobgoblin			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ache	past	hobgoblin's sides			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	fly	past	the tiny bits of glass	still	about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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