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title: Everybody burst into shouts of laughter at the sight of him, and the… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Everybody burst into shouts of laughter at the sight of him, and the men laid down the coffin and laughed too, till their sides nearly split. Who acts: Everybody, men, sides. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 11

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Everybody burst into shouts of laughter at the sight of him, and the men laid down the coffin and laughed too, till their sides nearly split.

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**Who acts:** Everybody, men, sides · **What happens:** burst, shout, lay down, laugh, split, sight · **To what, where:** sight, coffin, husband

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everybody, men, sides), 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:pg3282:30:11
# text = Everybody burst into shouts of laughter at the sight of him, and the men laid down the coffin and laughed too, till their sides nearly split.
1	Everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | past | Everybody |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Everybody *not said here* |  |  | the sight of husband |  | of laughter | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lay down** | participle | the men | the coffin |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Result |
| 4 | **laugh** | past | Everybody *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **split** | past | clothes's sides |  |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | husband |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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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