The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 121

And he laughed out loud with joy, and said to himself, ‘This is MY luck, mine, Sit-in-the-kitchen!

Who acts: body, This · What happens: laugh out, say, be, sit · To what, where: body, luck, kitchen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (body, This), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg641:2578): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 laughed	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 laughed	advmod
5	loud	loud	ADV	_	3 laughed	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 joy	case
7	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 himself	case
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 luck	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 luck	punct
15	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 luck	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 luck	cop
17	MY	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 luck	nmod:poss
18	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mine	punct
20	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 luck	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Sit	punct
22	Sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 mine	appos
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 kitchen	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	28 kitchen	case
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 kitchen	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 kitchen	det
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 kitchen	punct
28	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Sit	obl
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh out	past	body				with joy; loud, out property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	body not said here		body			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
3	is a	present	This	MY luck				tree rules
4	sit	infinitive				the kitchen		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in kitchen=Location

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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