Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 93

Everybody burst out a laughing--the princess could not stop no more than the rest; and then says Tom, "Now, ma'am, if there were fifty halves of you, I hope you'll give me them all."

Who acts: Everybody, princess, Tom, fifty halves, you · What happens: burst out, laugh, not stop, say, be, hope · To what, where: more, arms · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everybody, princess, Tom, fifty halves), 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	Everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 burst	nsubj
2	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 burst	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 laughing	det
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 burst	advcl
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 stop	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 princess	det
8	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stop	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 stop	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 stop	advmod
11	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 burst	conj
12	no	no	ADV	_	13 more	advmod
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 stop	obj
14	than	than	ADP	_	16 rest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rest	det
16	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 more	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 says	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 says	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 says	advmod
20	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 burst	parataxis
21	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 says	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Now	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Now	punct
24	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 says	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ma'am	punct
26	ma'am	ma'am	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Now	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 were	punct
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 were	mark
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 were	expl
30	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 says	advcl
31	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 halves	nummod
32	halves	half	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 were	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 you	case
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 halves	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hope	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 hope	nsubj
37	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 says	conj
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 give	nsubj
39	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 give	aux
40	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 hope	ccomp
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 give	iobj
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 give	iobj
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 them	nmod:unmarked
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 burst	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 burst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	burst out	past	Everybody					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	laugh	gerund	Everybody not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not stop	could	the princess	more				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector more=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	present	Tom				then; now	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	be a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	fifty halves of you			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hope in a quote	present	Tom					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	give in a quote	future	you		arms = arm			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient they=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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