Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 25
On hearing this the Baboon was very much amused, and set to work to laugh very heartily.
What happens: hear, be, set, work, laugh · To what, where: this
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Jackals and the Tiger.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 amused | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 hearing | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Baboon | det |
| 5 | Baboon | Baboon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 amused | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 amused | advmod |
| 9 | amused | amused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 set | cc |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 amused | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 work | mark |
| 14 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 set | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 laugh | mark |
| 16 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 work | advcl |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 heartily | advmod |
| 18 | heartily | heartily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 laugh | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 amused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | this | the Baboon obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | amused property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | work | to-infinitive | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | laugh | to-infinitive | heartily property | 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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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