English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 43

So the gentleman burst out a-laughing, and showed him how to put them on; and he was very much obliged to him, and said he never should have thought of doing it that way.

Who acts: gentleman · What happens: burst out, laugh, show, put on, oblige, say · To what, where: gentleman, miles, three, part · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Sillies. 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 burst	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gentleman	det
3	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burst	nsubj
4	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 burst	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 laughing	det
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 a	punct
8	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 burst	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 showed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 showed	cc
11	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burst	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 showed	iobj
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 put	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 put	mark
15	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 showed	advcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	15 put	compound:prt
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 obliged	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 obliged	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 obliged	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 obliged	aux:pass
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADV	_	24 obliged	advmod
24	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 burst	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 obliged	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burst	conj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 thought	nsubj
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 thought	advmod
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 thought	aux
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 thought	aux
34	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 said	ccomp
35	of	of	SCONJ	_	36 doing	mark
36	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 thought	advcl
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 doing	obj
38	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 way	det
39	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 doing	obl:unmarked
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 burst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	burst out	past	the gentleman				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	laugh	gerund	the gentleman not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	show	past	the gentleman not said here		gentleman		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	put on	to-infinitive	the gentleman not said here	miles = mile			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
5	oblige	past · passive		gentleman	three		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	say speech: assert	past	the gentleman not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	not think speech: other	should · perfect	gentleman				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	do	gerund	gentleman not said here	part		that way obl:unmarked	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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