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title: Then, as he felt hungry, he wished for his table back again, as no h… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, as he felt hungry, he wished for his table back again, as no house was in sight, and he wanted some supper badly. Who acts: Jack, house. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 36

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Then, as he felt hungry, he wished for his table back again, as no house was in sight, and he wanted some supper badly.

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**Who acts:** Jack, house · **What happens:** feel, wish, be, want · **To what, where:** supper

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, house), 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:pg3027:20:36
# text = Then, as he felt hungry, he wished for his table back again, as no house was in sight, and he wanted some supper badly.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | Jack |  |  |  | then | hungry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **wish** | past | Jack |  |  |  | again | for Jack's table | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for table=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | no house |  |  |  |  | as sight | tree rules |
| 4 | **want** | past | Jack | some supper |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot supper=Theme |

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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:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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