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title: At these words Alonzo burst into a shout of laughter; but it sounded… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At these words Alonzo burst into a shout of laughter; but it sounded so harsh and loud that Julia shrank away shuddering. Who acts: Alonzo, laughter, Julia. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 95

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At these words Alonzo burst into a shout of laughter; but it sounded so harsh and loud that Julia shrank away shuddering.

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**Who acts:** Alonzo, laughter, Julia · **What happens:** burst, sound, shrink away, shudder, shout · **To what, where:** words, laughter

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alonzo, laughter, Julia), 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:pg3282:10:95
# text = At these words Alonzo burst into a shout of laughter; but it sounded so harsh and loud that Julia shrank away shuddering.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	Alonzo	Alonzo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shout	shout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	harsh	harsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	Julia	Julia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	shrank	shrink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	shuddering	shudder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | past | Alonzo |  |  | this words |  | into a shout of laughter | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at word=Location |
| 2 | **sound** | past | laughter |  |  |  |  | harsh *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **shrink away** | past | Julia |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **shudder** | gerund | Julia *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **shout** |  |  | laughter |  |  |  |  | nom shout «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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