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title: He let a roar out of him, and made for the room door, to look for a… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He let a roar out of him, and made for the room door, to look for a candle inside. Who acts: boy. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 73

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He let a roar out of him, and made for the room door, to look for a candle inside.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** let, make, look · **To what, where:** roar

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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:pg7885:18:73
# text = He let a roar out of him, and made for the room door, to look for a candle inside.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | boy | a roar |  |  |  | out cat | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for the room door | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for door=Asset |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for a candle; inside *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for candle=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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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