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title: At this Bolgolam rose up in fury, wondering how the secretary dared… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At this Bolgolam rose up in fury, wondering how the secretary dared desire to preserve the life of a traitor; and the treasurer, pointing out the expense of keeping you, also urged your death. Who acts: secretary, treasurer, expense, your. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 48

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At this Bolgolam rose up in fury, wondering how the secretary dared desire to preserve the life of a traitor; and the treasurer, pointing out the expense of keeping you, also urged your death.

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**Who acts:** secretary, treasurer, expense, your · **What happens:** rise up, wonder, dare, preserve, point out, keep · **To what, where:** Bolgolam, desire, life, expense, you, death · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (secretary, treasurer, expense, your), 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:pg503:46:48
# text = At this Bolgolam rose up in fury, wondering how the secretary dared desire to preserve the life of a traitor; and the treasurer, pointing out the expense of keeping you, also urged your death.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	Bolgolam	Bolgolam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	secretary	secretary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
14	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	traitor	traitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	treasurer	treasurer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	expense	expense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	also	also	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	urged	urge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
37	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise up** | past |  |  |  | this Bolgolam |  | in fury | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bolgolam=Location |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **dare** | past | the secretary | desire |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent desire=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **preserve** | to-infinitive | the secretary *not said here* | the life of a traitor |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **point out** | gerund | the treasurer *not said here* | the expense |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expense=Patient |
| 6 | **keep** | gerund | the expense *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 7 | **urge** | participle | the treasurer *not said here* | your death |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Recipient |
| 8 | **die** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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