The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 90

But they only laughed at her, crying:

Who acts: doves · What happens: laugh, cry

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doves), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 laughed	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 laughed	advmod
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 crying	punct
8	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 laughed	advcl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	doves = dove					at Queen	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	gerund	doves = dove not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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