Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 22
She turned to her lodge, but a roar of laughter And merry mockery followed after.
Who acts: fawn, laughter · What happens: turn, follow, roar · To what, where: lodge, roar
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. [2]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fawn, laughter), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 lodge | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 followed | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 followed | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 roar | det |
| 9 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 laughter | case |
| 11 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 roar | nmod |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mockery | cc |
| 13 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mockery | amod |
| 14 | mockery | mockery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 roar | conj |
| 15 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 turned | conj |
| 16 | after | after | ADV | _ | 15 followed | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | fawn | fawn's lodge | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to lodge=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | follow | participle · passive | a roar of laughter and merry mockery | after property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | roar | laughter | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=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: «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (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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