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title: But as he was still very hungry and this juicy salad tasted very goo… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But as he was still very hungry and this juicy salad tasted very good to his present nature, he went on eating with a still greater appetite. Who acts: Hunter, juicy salad. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 71

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But as he was still very hungry and this juicy salad tasted very good to his present nature, he went on eating with a still greater appetite.

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**Who acts:** Hunter, juicy salad · **What happens:** be, taste, go, eat

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunter, juicy salad), 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:pg640:10:71
# text = But as he was still very hungry and this juicy salad tasted very good to his present nature, he went on eating with a still greater appetite.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	juicy	juicy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	salad	salad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	tasted	taste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	appetite	appetite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Hunter |  |  |  | still | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **taste** | past | this juicy salad |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | past | Hunter |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | gerund | Hunter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a greater appetite | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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