English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 115

And then that laughed and twirled that's tail till you couldn't hardly see it.

Who acts: that, you · What happens: laugh, twirl, be, not see · To what, where: tail, window

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, you), 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	_	4 laughed	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 laughed	advmod
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 twirled	cc
6	twirled	twirl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 tail	det
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tail	cop
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 twirled	obj
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 see	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 see	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 see	advmod
14	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	15 see	advmod
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 twirled	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 see	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	that		then		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	twirl	past	that not said here				vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present		that tail			tree rules
4	not see	could	you	window		hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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