Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment, sentence 3

Nervous giggles at a funeral, like Max and his cousin during the prayers, happen to lots of people: the body lets off tension in a strange way, and it does not mean they did not care.

Who acts: Nervous giggles, body, it, giggles · What happens: happen, let off, not mean, not care · To what, where: tension, strange way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nervous giggles, body, it, giggles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

changed act=assert

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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