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title: But at this the Carl burst into a roar of laughter, so that the eard… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But at this the Carl burst into a roar of laughter, so that the eardrums of the warriors present almost burst inside of their heads. Who acts: laughter. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 7

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But at this the Carl burst into a roar of laughter, so that the eardrums of the warriors present almost burst inside of their heads.

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**Who acts:** laughter · **What happens:** burst, roar · **To what, where:** Carl, eardrums, heads

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (laughter), 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:pg2892:50:7
# text = But at this the Carl burst into a roar of laughter, so that the eardrums of the warriors present almost burst inside of their heads.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Carl	Carl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	eardrums	eardrum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	present	present	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	burst	burst	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
23	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | past |  |  |  | the Carl |  | into a roar of laughter | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at carl=Location |
| 2 | **burst** | present · passive |  | the eardrums of the warriors |  | eardrums's heads |  | almost *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **roar** |  | laughter |  |  |  |  |  | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=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:** «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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