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title: Suddenly he burst into such loud laughter that he fell right backwar… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly he burst into such loud laughter that he fell right backwards, and when he had recovered himself enough to speak, he turned to the Sultan. " Who acts: barber. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 51

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Suddenly he burst into such loud laughter that he fell right backwards, and when he had recovered himself enough to speak, he turned to the Sultan. "

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**Who acts:** barber · **What happens:** burst, fall, recover, speak, turn · **To what, where:** such loud laughter, barber · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (barber), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:22:51
# text = Suddenly he burst into such loud laughter that he fell right backwards, and when he had recovered himself enough to speak, he turned to the Sultan. "
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	recovered	recover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | past | barber |  |  | such loud laughter |  | suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past | barber |  |  |  |  | backwards, right *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **recover** | past · perfect | barber | barber |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | barber *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **turn** | past | barber |  |  |  |  | to the Sultan *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sultan=Result |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (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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