The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 81

But his father and his mother laughed heartily, and thought his words idle talk.

Who acts: father · What happens: laugh, think, word · To what, where: words

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 (father), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 laughed	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laughed	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 mother	cc
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 father	conj
7	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	7 laughed	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thought	cc
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 laughed	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 words	nmod:poss
13	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 thought	obj
14	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 talk	amod
15	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thought	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	father's father and father's mother		heartily property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past	father's father and father's mother not said here	father's words		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent word=Theme talk=Attribute
3	word		father			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 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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