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title: All the company laughed at the adventure but Miss Alice, who pitied… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All the company laughed at the adventure but Miss Alice, who pitied the poor boy, and gave him something to buy another cat. Who acts: company, adventure. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 27

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All the company laughed at the adventure but Miss Alice, who pitied the poor boy, and gave him something to buy another cat.

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**Who acts:** company, adventure · **What happens:** laugh, pity, give, buy · **To what, where:** adventure, poor boy, something, company, cat

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (company, adventure), 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:pg503:29:27
# text = All the company laughed at the adventure but Miss Alice, who pitied the poor boy, and gave him something to buy another cat.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	pitied	pity	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | all company |  |  | the adventure but Miss |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pity** | past | the adventure but Miss | the poor boy |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus |
| 3 | **give** | past | all company *not said here* | something | company |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient something=Theme |
| 4 | **buy** | to-infinitive | all company *not said here* | another cat |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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