English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 96

Well, he hadn't eaten but a mouthful or so, when he stops and begins to laugh.

Who acts: king · What happens: not eat, stop, begin, laugh

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 (king), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 eaten	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eaten	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eaten	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 eaten	advmod
6	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 mouthful	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mouthful	det
9	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eaten	conj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 so	cc
11	so	so	ADV	_	6 eaten	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stops	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 stops	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stops	nsubj
15	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eaten	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 begins	cc
17	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 stops	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 laugh	mark
19	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 begins	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	not eat	past · perfect	king	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stop	present	king	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	begin	present	king not said here	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	laugh	to-infinitive	king not said here	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: «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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