The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 199
Ludovine burst out into a fit of laughter.
Who acts: Ludovine · What happens: burst out · To what, where: fit
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ludovine), 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 | Ludovine | Ludovine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 burst | nsubj |
| 2 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 burst | compound:prt |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 fit | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fit | det |
| 6 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 burst | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 laughter | case |
| 8 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fit | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst out | past | Ludovine | a fit of laughter | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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