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title: Father Grumbler felt quite frightened at the torrent, but at last he… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Father Grumbler felt quite frightened at the torrent, but at last he remembered what the Holy Man had told him, and cried at the top of his voice: “Enough! enough! Who acts: Father, Holy Man. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 33

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Father Grumbler felt quite frightened at the torrent, but at last he remembered what the Holy Man had told him, and cried at the top of his voice: “Enough! enough!

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**Who acts:** Father, Holy Man · **What happens:** feel, frighten, remember, tell, cry · **To what, where:** torrent, last, Father, top · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, Holy Man), 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:pg3282:9:33
# text = Father Grumbler felt quite frightened at the torrent, but at last he remembered what the Holy Man had told him, and cried at the top of his voice: “Enough! enough!
1	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Grumbler	Grumbler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	torrent	torrent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	_	18	compound	_	_
18	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	parataxis	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
32	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
35	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | Father |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **frighten** | participle | Father *not said here* |  |  | the torrent |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **remember** | past | Father |  |  | last |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | the Holy Man |  | Father |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Father *not said here* |  |  | the top of Father's voice |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Location |

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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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