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title: But when he saw the blood pouring from his face, he went to a corner… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But when he saw the blood pouring from his face, he went to a corner of the court and began to cry, which was the strangest thing of all.’ Who acts: Sire, blood. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 46

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But when he saw the blood pouring from his face, he went to a corner of the court and began to cry, which was the strangest thing of all.’

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**Who acts:** Sire, blood · **What happens:** see, pour, go, begin, cry, be · **To what, where:** blood, face, corner, strangest thing

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (Sire, blood), 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:pg3454:3:46
# text = But when he saw the blood pouring from his face, he went to a corner of the court and began to cry, which was the strangest thing of all.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	strangest	strange	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
29	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Sire | the blood |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pour** | gerund | the blood *not said here* |  |  | Sire's face |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from face=Source |
| 3 | **go** | past | Sire |  |  | a corner of the court |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to corner=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **begin** | past | Sire *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | Sire *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | the strangest thing |  |  |  | of all | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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