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title: Everybody laughed at his queer venture; but little Alice felt sorry… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Everybody laughed at his queer venture; but little Alice felt sorry for him, and gave him money to buy another cat. Who acts: Everybody, little Alice, Dick. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, III. the Venture., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, III. the Venture., sentence 17

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Everybody laughed at his queer venture; but little Alice felt sorry for him, and gave him money to buy another cat.

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**Who acts:** Everybody, little Alice, Dick · **What happens:** laugh, feel, give, buy, venture · **To what, where:** queer venture, money, Dick, cat

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, III. the Venture.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everybody, little Alice, Dick), 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:pg18442:51:17
# text = Everybody laughed at his queer venture; but little Alice felt sorry for him, and gave him money to buy another cat.
1	Everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	queer	queer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	venture	venture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | Everybody |  |  | Dick's queer venture |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **feel** | past | little Alice |  |  |  |  | for Dick; sorry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **give** | past | Everybody *not said here* | money | Dick |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient money=Theme |
| 4 | **buy** | to-infinitive | Everybody *not said here* | another cat |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme |
| 5 | **venture** |  | Dick |  |  |  |  |  | nom venture «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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