The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 35
The parents laughed at the little man’s words, but did not believe him for a moment.
Who acts: parents, little man · What happens: laugh, not believe, word · To what, where: words, man
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 (parents, little man), 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 parents | det |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 words | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 words | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 man | case |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 laughed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 believe | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 believe | cc |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 believe | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 believe | advmod |
| 14 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 laughed | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 believe | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 moment | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 moment | det |
| 18 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 believe | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the parents | the little man's words | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not believe | past · do-support | the parents not said here | man | moment | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | word | the little man | 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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