The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 111

And a smile played round the King’s lips as he finished speaking, and his courtiers and counsellors shook with laughter when they thought of the old woman’s folly, and praised the King’s wise device, and said to each other, ‘What a joke it will be when we see the pair of them tarred and feathered!

Who acts: smile, courtiers, joke · What happens: play, finish, speak, shake, think, praise · To what, where: smile, wise device · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smile, courtiers, joke), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 finished	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 smile	det
3	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 finished	nsubj
4	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 smile	acl
5	round	round	ADP	_	9 lips	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 lips	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 King	case
9	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 played	obl
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 finished	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 finished	nsubj
12	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 finished	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 shook	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 shook	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 courtiers	nmod:poss
17	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 shook	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 counsellors	cc
19	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 courtiers	conj
20	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 finished	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 laughter	case
22	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shook	obl
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 thought	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 thought	nsubj
25	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 shook	advcl
26	of	of	ADP	_	31 folly	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 woman	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 woman	amod
29	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 folly	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 woman	case
31	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 thought	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 praised	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 praised	cc
34	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 shook	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 King	det
36	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 device	nmod:poss
37	’s	's	PART	_	36 King	case
38	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 device	amod
39	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 praised	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 said	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 said	cc
42	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 finished	conj
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 each	case
44	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	42 said	obl
45	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 each	fixed
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 What	punct
47	‘	'	PUNCT	_	48 What	punct
48	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	61 tarred	obj
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 joke	det
50	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 What	nsubj
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 see	nsubj
52	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 see	aux
53	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 see	cop
54	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	56 see	advmod
55	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 see	nsubj
56	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 What	parataxis
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 pair	det
58	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 see	obj
59	of	of	ADP	_	60 them	case
60	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 pair	nmod
61	tarred	tar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 said	ccomp
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 feathered	cc
63	feathered	feathered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 tarred	conj
64	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	play	participle		a smile not said here	round the King's lips	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	finish	past	a smile			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	speak speech: other	gerund	a smile not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	shake	past	smile's courtiers and counsellors		with laughter	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with laughter=Co-Patient
5	think speech: other	past	courtiers = courtier		of the old woman's folly	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	praise	past	smile's courtiers and counsellors not said here	the King's wise device		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent device=Theme
7	say speech: assert	past	a smile not said here		to each	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to each=Experiencer clause=Topic
8	is	future	joke		see property	tree rules
9	tar	participle				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent what=Destination

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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