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title: Laughing at the thought of danger, Swung and fluttered o'er the wate… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Laughing at the thought of danger, Swung and fluttered o'er the waters. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 7

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Laughing at the thought of danger, Swung and fluttered o'er the waters.

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**What happens:** laugh, swing, flutter, think · **To what, where:** thought, danger

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8122:19:7
# text = Laughing at the thought of danger, Swung and fluttered o'er the waters.
1	Laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Swung	swing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	fluttered	flutter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
11	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  | the thought of danger |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **swing** | participle |  | danger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **flutter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | o'er the waters | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **think** |  |  | danger |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (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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