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title: She turned to her lodge, but a roar of laughter And merry mockery fo… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: She turned to her lodge, but a roar of laughter And merry mockery followed after. Who acts: fawn, laughter. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. [2], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. \[2\], sentence 22

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She turned to her lodge, but a roar of laughter And merry mockery followed after.

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**Who acts:** fawn, laughter · **What happens:** turn, follow, roar · **To what, where:** lodge, roar

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. \[2\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fawn, laughter), 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:pg8122:6:22
# text = She turned to her lodge, but a roar of laughter And merry mockery followed after.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mockery	mockery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
16	after	after	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | fawn |  |  | fawn's lodge |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to lodge=Trajectory |
| 2 | **follow** | participle · passive |  | a roar of laughter and merry mockery |  |  |  | after *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **roar** |  | laughter |  |  |  |  |  | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=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:** «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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