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title: And the louder they all laughed, the more stupid and helpless did th… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the louder they all laughed, the more stupid and helpless did the two and twenty gormandizers look. Who acts: men, two gormandizers. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 34

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And the louder they all laughed, the more stupid and helpless did the two and twenty gormandizers look.

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**Who acts:** men, two gormandizers · **What happens:** laugh, look

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, two gormandizers), 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:pg976:17:34
# text = And the louder they all laughed, the more stupid and helpless did the two and twenty gormandizers look.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	helpless	helpless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	conj	_	_
18	gormandizers	gormandizer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look** | past · do-support | the two gormandizers |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:** «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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