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title: Shuddering with horror at his discovery he turned back into the vill… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Shuddering with horror at his discovery he turned back into the village street, hoping to meet some one who could tell him of the days of old. Who acts: man, one. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 114

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Shuddering with horror at his discovery he turned back into the village street, hoping to meet some one who could tell him of the days of old.

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**Who acts:** man, one · **What happens:** shudder, turn back, hope, meet, tell, discover · **To what, where:** village street, one, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, one), 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:pg5615:3:114
# text = Shuddering with horror at his discovery he turned back into the village street, hoping to meet some one who could tell him of the days of old.
1	Shuddering	shudder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shudder** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with horror; at man's discovery | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at discovery=Stimulus |
| 2 | **turn back** | past | man |  |  | the village street |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hope** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **meet** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | some one |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could | some one |  | man |  | day |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 6 | **discover** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom discovery «act transitive»: 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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