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title: ‘With pleasure,’ said the barber, laughing, and all the people in hi… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘With pleasure,’ said the barber, laughing, and all the people in his shop fell to laughing also. Who acts: pleasure, people. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 49

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‘With pleasure,’ said the barber, laughing, and all the people in his shop fell to laughing also.

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**Who acts:** pleasure, people · **What happens:** say, laugh, fall · **To what, where:** barber · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pleasure, people), 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:pg641:27:49
# text = ‘With pleasure,’ said the barber, laughing, and all the people in his shop fell to laughing also.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	barber	barber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	advcl	_	_
22	also	also	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | pleasure | the barber |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent barber=Topic |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund | pleasure *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | past | all people in pleasure's shop |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **laugh** | gerund | all people in pleasure's shop *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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