The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 108
Everyone roared with laughter; even the secretary smiled and stroked his beard, and the man said:
Who acts: Everyone, secretary, man · What happens: roar, smile, stroke, say · To what, where: beard · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everyone, secretary, 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 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 roared | nsubj |
| 2 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 laughter | case |
| 4 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 roared | obl |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 smiled | punct |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 secretary | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 secretary | det |
| 8 | secretary | secretary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 smiled | nsubj |
| 9 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 roared | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stroked | cc |
| 11 | stroked | stroke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 smiled | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 beard | nmod:poss |
| 13 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stroked | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 roared | parataxis |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar | past | Everyone | with laughter | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with laughter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | smile | past | the secretary | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stroke | past | the secretary not said here | secretary's beard | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 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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