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title: But if the sight of the blood on the ground turned her faint, the si… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But if the sight of the blood on the ground turned her faint, the sight of the robber captain walking up and down was a greater shock still. Who acts: sight, robber captain. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 14

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But if the sight of the blood on the ground turned her faint, the sight of the robber captain walking up and down was a greater shock still.

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**Who acts:** sight, robber captain · **What happens:** turn, walk, be, sight · **To what, where:** faint, greater shock, blood, robber captain

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, robber captain), 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:pg2435:15:14
# text = But if the sight of the blood on the ground turned her faint, the sight of the robber captain walking up and down was a greater shock still.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	up	up	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	down	down	ADV	RB	_	22	conj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
29	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | the sight of the blood on the ground | sight's faint |  |  | still |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent faint=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund | the robber captain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the sight of the robber captain | a greater shock |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sight** |  |  | the blood on the ground |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **sight** |  |  | the robber captain |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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