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title: When the dwarf had recovered from the first shock he screamed in his… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the dwarf had recovered from the first shock he screamed in his screeching voice: “Couldn’t you have treated me more carefully? Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 78

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When the dwarf had recovered from the first shock he screamed in his screeching voice: “Couldn’t you have treated me more carefully?

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** recover, scream, screech, not treat · **To what, where:** dwarf, first shock, screeching voice, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg503:36:78
# text = When the dwarf had recovered from the first shock he screamed in his screeching voice: “Couldn’t you have treated me more carefully?
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	recovered	recover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	screamed	scream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	screeching	screech	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recover** | past · perfect · passive |  | the dwarf |  | the first shock |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from shock=Source |
| 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | past | man | the first shock *not said here* |  | man's screeching voice |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shock=Topic |
| 3 | **screech** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **treat** *in a quote* | could · perfect · passive |  | you |  |  |  | carefully *property* | 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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