The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 49

‘With pleasure,’ said the barber, laughing, and all the people in his shop fell to laughing also.

Who acts: pleasure, people · What happens: say, laugh, fall · To what, where: barber · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pleasure, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 pleasure	punct
2	With	with	ADP	_	3 pleasure	case
3	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pleasure	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 pleasure	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 barber	det
8	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 laughing	punct
10	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 said	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fell	cc
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 people	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fell	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 shop	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 shop	nmod:poss
18	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 people	nmod
19	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
20	to	to	SCONJ	_	21 laughing	mark
21	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 fell	advcl
22	also	also	ADV	_	21 laughing	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	pleasure	the barber	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent barber=Topic
2	laugh	gerund	pleasure not said here		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	past	all people in pleasure's shop		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	laugh	gerund	all people in pleasure's shop not said here		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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