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title: And at this thought the pangs of hunger made him feel quite sick wit… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And at this thought the pangs of hunger made him feel quite sick with fear. Who acts: pangs, Hare. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 54

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And at this thought the pangs of hunger made him feel quite sick with fear.

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**Who acts:** pangs, Hare · **What happens:** think, make, feel · **To what, where:** this, Hare · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pangs, Hare), 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:pg3282:11:54
# text = And at this thought the pangs of hunger made him feel quite sick with fear.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pangs	pang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  | this |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | the pangs of hunger | Hare |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | infinitive | Hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: 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:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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