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title: Then I rose up, feeling as melancholy as ever I did in my life. — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then I rose up, feeling as melancholy as ever I did in my life. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 66

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Then I rose up, feeling as melancholy as ever I did in my life.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** rise up, feel, do · **To what, where:** life

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg503:43:66
# text = Then I rose up, feeling as melancholy as ever I did in my life.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise up** | past | I |  |  |  | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **feel** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as melancholy | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent as melancholy=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | I |  |  | my life | ever |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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