The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 17

The man laughed at his wife’s words, and thought it was a good joke.

Who acts: man, birth, wife · What happens: laugh, think, be, word · To what, where: words, good joke · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, birth, wife), 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 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	8 words	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 words	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 wife	case
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laughed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thought	cc
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 joke	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 joke	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 joke	det
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 joke	amod
16	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thought	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	laugh	past	the man		spark's wife's words	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past	the man not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	birth	a good joke		tree rules
4	word		spark's wife			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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 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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