English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 90
He came running out with it, laughing his best.
Who acts: gentleman · What happens: come, run out, laugh · To what, where: best
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman), 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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 running | compound:prt |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 running | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 laughing | punct |
| 8 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 came | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 best | nmod:poss |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 laughing | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | gentleman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run out | gerund | gentleman not said here | with box | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with it=Material | ||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | gentleman not said here | gentleman's best | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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