The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 10
Then his mother burst out laughing and said, ‘What an idea!
Who acts: mother · What happens: burst out, laugh, say, idea · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hazel-nut Child (29). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 burst | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 burst | nsubj |
| 4 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 burst | compound:prt |
| 6 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 burst | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 burst | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 idea | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 idea | punct |
| 11 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 idea | nsubj |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 idea | det |
| 13 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst out | past | messenger's mother | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | messenger's mother not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | messenger's mother not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | idea | tree rules |
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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