Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 28
But one day at a funeral she suddenly burst out into fits of laughter.
Who acts: blow · What happens: burst out · To what, where: fits
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shepherd of Myddvai. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blow), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 burst | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 burst | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 funeral | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 funeral | det |
| 6 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 burst | nsubj |
| 8 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 9 burst | advmod |
| 9 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 burst | compound:prt |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 fits | case |
| 12 | fits | fit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 burst | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 laughter | case |
| 14 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fits | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst out | past | blow | fits of laughter | day | suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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