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title: The rest all burst out laughing, and the eldest pointed out that a p… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The rest all burst out laughing, and the eldest pointed out that a princess ought never to lower herself by looking at a garden boy. Who acts: rest, eldest, princess. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 36

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The rest all burst out laughing, and the eldest pointed out that a princess ought never to lower herself by looking at a garden boy.

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**Who acts:** rest, eldest, princess · **What happens:** burst out, laugh, point out, not lower, look · **To what, where:** rest

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, eldest, princess), 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:pg540:2:36
# text = The rest all burst out laughing, and the eldest pointed out that a princess ought never to lower herself by looking at a garden boy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	nsubj	_	_
11	pointed	point	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	lower	lower	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
20	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst out** | past | the rest |  |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund | the rest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **point out** | participle | the eldest |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **lower** | ought | a princess | rest |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme |
| 5 | **look** | gerund | a princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at a garden boy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at boy=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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