The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 13
And with a hearty laugh he dismissed the peasant.
Who acts: King · What happens: dismiss · To what, where: peasant
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dismissed | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 laugh | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 laugh | det |
| 4 | hearty | hearty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 laugh | amod |
| 5 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dismissed | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dismissed | nsubj |
| 7 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 peasant | det |
| 9 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dismissed | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dismissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismiss | past | King | the peasant | with a hearty laugh | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peasant=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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