English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 49

So the gentleman burst out a-laughing, and told them to look up into the sky, and that it was only the shadow in the water.

Who acts: gentleman, sky · What happens: burst out, laugh, tell, look up, be · To what, where: people, shadow, water · 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, sky), 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 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burst	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 look	mark
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 told	xcomp
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 look	compound:prt
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 sky	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sky	det
18	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 look	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shadow	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 shadow	cc
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 shadow	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 shadow	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 shadow	cop
24	only	only	ADV	_	26 shadow	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 shadow	det
26	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burst	parataxis
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 water	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shadow	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 burst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	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	tell speech: assert	past	the gentleman not said here		people			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	look up not said to happen	to-infinitive	the gentleman not said here				into the sky	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into sky=Theme
5	is a	past	sky	the shadow		the water		tree rules

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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