Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 125
At this everybody laughed, and the Kings were greatly astonished.
Who acts: Kings · What happens: laugh, be · To what, where: everybody
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kings), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 everybody | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 everybody | det |
| 3 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 laughed | obl |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 astonished | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 astonished | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Kings | det |
| 8 | Kings | King | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 astonished | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 astonished | cop |
| 10 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 11 astonished | advmod |
| 11 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 laughed | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | everybody | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the Kings | astonished, greatly property | tree rules |
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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