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title: And then peals of mocking laughter rang through the air, and they gu… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And then peals of mocking laughter rang through the air, and they guessed that this was another of the Fairy Carabosse’s unpleasant jokes. Who acts: peals, Fairy Carabosse. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 74

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And then peals of mocking laughter rang through the air, and they guessed that this was another of the Fairy Carabosse’s unpleasant jokes.

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**Who acts:** peals, Fairy Carabosse · **What happens:** mock, ring, guess, joke · **To what, where:** laughter, air

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peals, Fairy Carabosse), 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:pg540:3:74
# text = And then peals of mocking laughter rang through the air, and they guessed that this was another of the Fairy Carabosse’s unpleasant jokes.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
3	peals	peal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	mocking	mock	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	guessed	guess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Carabosse	Carabosse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mock** | gerund | peals *not said here* | laughter |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laughter=Theme |
| 2 | **ring** | past | peals |  |  | the air | then |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location |
| 3 | **guess** | past | peals *= peal* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **joke** |  | the Fairy Carabosse |  |  |  |  |  | nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=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:** «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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