The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 41

Hans thought he would count them for fun, and had already reached the five hundred and seventieth when his host returned and cried, laughing:

Who acts: Hans, present, host · What happens: think, count, reach, return, cry, laugh · To what, where: Hans, five hundred · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, present, host), 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	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 count	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 count	aux
5	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 count	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 fun	case
8	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 count	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reached	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 reached	cc
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 reached	aux
12	already	already	ADV	_	13 reached	advmod
13	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 thought	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hundred	det
15	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 hundred	compound
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 reached	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 seventieth	cc
18	seventieth	seventieth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hundred	conj
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 returned	advmod
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 host	nmod:poss
21	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 returned	nsubj
22	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hundred	advcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cried	cc
24	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 returned	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 laughing	punct
26	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 cried	advcl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Hans			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	count	would	present	Hans = han	for fun	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	reach	past · perfect		the five hundred and seventieth		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	return	past	present's host			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cry speech: express	past	present's host not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	laugh	gerund	present's host not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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