--- title: As by this time evening had already fallen he took the child and ope… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As by this time evening had already fallen he took the child and opened its veins, and smeared the blood over the wounds of the sick man, and the look of death departed from him, and he grew strong and rosy once more. Who acts: way. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2435:38:20 # text = As by this time evening had already fallen he took the child and opened its veins, and smeared the blood over the wounds of the sick man, and the look of death departed from him, and he grew strong and rosy once more. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 2 by by ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 already already ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 veins vein NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 smeared smear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 over over ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 wounds wound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 departed depart VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 42 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 xcomp _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 rosy rosy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 conj _ _ 45 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 46 advmod _ _ 46 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 42 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | past · perfect | way *not said here* | | | | evening | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **take** | past | way | | the child | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination | | 3 | **open** | past | way *not said here* | horror's veins | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location vein=Theme | | 4 | **smear** | past | way *not said here* | the blood | | the wounds of the sick man | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blood=Theme over wound=Destination | | 5 | **depart** | participle · passive | | the look of death | | | | from way | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **grow** | past | way | | | | | strong *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **wound** | | | the sick man | | | | | nom wound «state transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/38/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/38/21/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/38/)