The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 61

His father, mother, and brothers, and, indeed, everybody else, all laughed at him.

What happens: laugh · To what, where: everybody

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 father	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 brothers	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 brothers	cc
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 father	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 laughed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 laughed	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 and	punct
11	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	17 laughed	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 indeed	punct
13	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 laughed	obl:unmarked
14	else	else	ADV	_	13 everybody	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 everybody	punct
16	all	all	ADV	_	17 laughed	advmod
17	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 father	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 laughed	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 father	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past		everybody				at Jenik; all, indeed property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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