English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 29

Now she had never laughed in her life, and the doctors said she would never speak till somebody made her laugh.

Who acts: girl, doctors, somebody · What happens: not laugh, say, not speak, make, laugh · To what, where: girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, doctors, somebody), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 laughed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laughed	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 laughed	advmod
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 life	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 life	nmod:poss
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laughed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 doctors	det
12	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laughed	conj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 speak	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 speak	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 speak	advmod
17	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
18	till	till	SCONJ	_	20 made	mark
19	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 made	nsubj
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 speak	advcl
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 laugh	obj
22	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 made	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not laugh	past · perfect	girl		now	in girl's life	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in life=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the doctors				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not speak speech: other	would	girl				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	past	somebody				tree rules
5	laugh	infinitive	somebody not said here	girl			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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