Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 38
We laugh at the absurdity of the thing--a potter's son marrying a princess, and we cry at the terrible consequence of the marriage.
Who acts: We, son · What happens: laugh, marry, cry · To what, where: absurdity, princess, terrible consequence
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, son), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 laugh | nsubj |
| 2 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 absurdity | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 absurdity | det |
| 5 | absurdity | absurdity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laugh | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 thing | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 absurdity | nmod |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 son | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 potter | det |
| 11 | potter | potter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 potter | case |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 absurdity | conj |
| 14 | marrying | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 son | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 princess | det |
| 16 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 marrying | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cry | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cry | cc |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 cry | nsubj |
| 20 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 laugh | parataxis |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 consequence | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 consequence | det |
| 23 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 consequence | amod |
| 24 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cry | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 marriage | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 marriage | det |
| 27 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 consequence | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laugh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | We | the absurdity of the thing and a potter's son | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | marry | gerund | a potter's son not said here | a princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | present | we | the terrible consequence of the marriage | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at consequence=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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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