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title: He felt half frightened to death, and besides was a good deal shaken… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He felt half frightened to death, and besides was a good deal shaken by his fall from the tree and did not feel at all inclined to dance. Who acts: heart, besides. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 47

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He felt half frightened to death, and besides was a good deal shaken by his fall from the tree and did not feel at all inclined to dance.

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**Who acts:** heart, besides · **What happens:** feel, frighten, be, shake, not feel, incline · **To what, where:** good deal, all

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, besides), 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:pg7277:31:47
# text = He felt half frightened to death, and besides was a good deal shaken by his fall from the tree and did not feel at all inclined to dance.
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	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	4	advmod	_	_
4	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	besides	beside	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
14	shaken	shake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	obl	_	_
27	inclined	incline	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	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 | heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **frighten** | participle | heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to death; half *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past | besides | a good deal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shake** | participle |  | a good deal *not said here* |  |  |  | by heart's fall; from the tree | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from tree=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **feel** | past · do-support | heart *not said here* |  |  | all |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location |
| 6 | **incline** | participle | heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **dance** | to-infinitive | heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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