The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 59
He laughed himself when he saw them till the tears rolled down his cheeks.
Who acts: Peter, tears · What happens: laugh, see, roll down · To what, where: Peter, eyes, cheeks
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, tears), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 laughed | nsubj |
| 2 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 laughed | obj |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 saw | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laughed | advcl |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 rolled | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tears | det |
| 10 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rolled | nsubj |
| 11 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | advcl |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 rolled | compound:prt |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 14 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rolled | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | Peter | Peter | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Peter | eyes = eye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | roll down | past | the tears | Peter's cheeks | vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cheek=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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