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title: He did not lose a moment in pricking the baby’s finger till the bloo… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He did not lose a moment in pricking the baby’s finger till the blood ran, and he brushed it on the wrists of the stone figure, which shuddered all over and split with a loud noise in seven parts and there was the faithful servant alive and well. Who acts: miller, moment, blood, stone figure. A sent
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 135

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He did not lose a moment in pricking the baby’s finger till the blood ran, and he brushed it on the wrists of the stone figure, which shuddered all over and split with a loud noise in seven parts and there was the faithful servant alive and well.

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**Who acts:** miller, moment, blood, stone figure · **What happens:** not lose, prick, run, brush, shudder, split · **To what, where:** finger, blood, wrists

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller, moment, blood, stone figure), 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:pg2435:2:135
# text = He did not lose a moment in pricking the baby’s finger till the blood ran, and he brushed it on the wrists of the stone figure, which shuddered all over and split with a loud noise in seven parts and there was the faithful servant alive and well.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	pricking	prick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	brushed	brush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wrists	wrist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	shuddered	shudder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	all	all	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	over	over	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	split	split	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	45	expl	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
49	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **lose** | past · do-support | miller |  |  |  | moment |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **prick** | gerund | a moment *not said here* | the baby's finger |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Patient |
| 3 | **run** | past | the blood |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **brush** | past | miller | blood |  | the wrists of the stone figure |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on wrist=Destination |
| 5 | **shudder** | past | the stone figure |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **split** | infinitive | miller *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a loud noise in seven parts | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with noise=Instrument |
| 7 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | tree rules |

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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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