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title: The sound of her distress made him forget he was hungry, and he stro… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The sound of her distress made him forget he was hungry, and he strode into the hut to find out for himself what was wrong. Who acts: sound, sun, woman. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 186

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The sound of her distress made him forget he was hungry, and he strode into the hut to find out for himself what was wrong.

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**Who acts:** sound, sun, woman · **What happens:** make, forget, be, stride, find out, distress · **To what, where:** sun, hut · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, sun, woman), 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:pg641:4:186
# text = The sound of her distress made him forget he was hungry, and he strode into the hut to find out for himself what was wrong.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	strode	stride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obl	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the sound of woman's distress | sun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **forget** | infinitive | sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | sun |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stride** | past | sun |  |  | the hut |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hut=Destination |
| 5 | **find out** | to-infinitive | sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for sun | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **distress** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom distress «feeling transitive»: poss=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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