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title: Then, just as he was entering the room, he said again, quite aloud:… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, just as he was entering the room, he said again, quite aloud: “Oh! if I could only shudder! if I could only shudder!” Who acts: carrier. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 77

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Then, just as he was entering the room, he said again, quite aloud: “Oh! if I could only shudder! if I could only shudder!”

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**Who acts:** carrier · **What happens:** enter, say, shudder · **To what, where:** room · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carrier), 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:pg503:13:77
# text = Then, just as he was entering the room, he said again, quite aloud: “Oh! if I could only shudder! if I could only shudder!”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	shudder	shudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	shudder	shudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past · progressive | carrier | the room |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | carrier |  |  |  | again | aloud *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **shudder** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | could | carrier |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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