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title: He felt hungry again, and, having still some provisions left, though… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He felt hungry again, and, having still some provisions left, thought he had better make ready his supper. Who acts: youth, having. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 73

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He felt hungry again, and, having still some provisions left, thought he had better make ready his supper.

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**Who acts:** youth, having · **What happens:** feel, have, leave, think, make · **To what, where:** provisions, supper · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, having), 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:pg5615:22:73
# text = He felt hungry again, and, having still some provisions left, thought he had better make ready his supper.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
14	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
17	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	csubj	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | youth |  |  |  | again | hungry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | gerund |  | some provisions |  |  | still |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent provision=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | participle |  | some provisions *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | having |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | youth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | infinitive | youth *not said here* | youth's supper |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset supper=Product |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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