The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 90
‘Ah, it is no laughing matter,’ sighed she.
Who acts: it · What happens: laugh, be, sigh · To what, where: laughing matter, calf
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 matter | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 8 matter | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 matter | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 matter | cop |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 matter | det |
| 7 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 matter | amod |
| 8 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sighed | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 matter | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 matter | punct |
| 11 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sighed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | no laughing matter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sigh | past | calf | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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