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title: He was very much surprised, and sat down in a corner of his room fee… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was very much surprised, and sat down in a corner of his room feeling quite ashamed of himself. Who acts: Darling. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 38

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He was very much surprised, and sat down in a corner of his room feeling quite ashamed of himself.

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**Who acts:** Darling · **What happens:** be, sit down, feel · **To what, where:** corner

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darling), 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:pg503:39:38
# text = He was very much surprised, and sat down in a corner of his room feeling quite ashamed of himself.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
17	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Darling |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | Darling *not said here* |  |  | a corner of Darling's room |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |
| 3 | **feel** | gerund | Darling *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ashamed *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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