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title: Give horrible shrieks as if he were in pain? — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Give horrible shrieks as if he were in pain? Who acts: you, sight. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 15

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Give horrible shrieks as if he were in pain?

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**Who acts:** you, sight · **What happens:** give, be · **To what, where:** horrible shrieks

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sight), 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:pg3282:7:15
# text = Give horrible shrieks as if he were in pain?
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	shrieks	shriek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | horrible shrieks |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shriek=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | sight |  |  |  |  | as pain | tree rules |

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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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