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title: “Ha!” said the wretch to himself, “this is good; Taram-taq has not e… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Ha!” said the wretch to himself, “this is good; Taram-taq has not eaten man-meat for a long time, and is craving for some. Who acts: wretch, this. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 20

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“Ha!” said the wretch to himself, “this is good; Taram-taq has not eaten man-meat for a long time, and is craving for some.

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**Who acts:** wretch, this · **What happens:** say, be, not eat, crave · **To what, where:** prince, Taram taq · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wretch, this), 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:pg3282:4:20
# text = “Ha!” said the wretch to himself, “this is good; Taram-taq has not eaten man-meat for a long time, and is craving for some.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ha	ha	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wretch	wretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	Taram	Taram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	taq	taq	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	craving	crave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the wretch |  | prince |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | this |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **eat** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | Taram taq |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **crave** *in a quote* | present · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | for some | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for some=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 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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