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title: The head of his lance will leave its shaft, and draw blood from the… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The head of his lance will leave its shaft, and draw blood from the wind, and descend upon its shaft again.’ Who acts: head. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 86

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The head of his lance will leave its shaft, and draw blood from the wind, and descend upon its shaft again.’

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**Who acts:** head · **What happens:** leave, draw, descend · **To what, where:** shaft, blood, wind

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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:pg3454:39:86
# text = The head of his lance will leave its shaft, and draw blood from the wind, and descend upon its shaft again.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	shaft	shaft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	descend	descend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	shaft	shaft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | future | the head of head's lance | lance's shaft |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shaft=Theme |
| 2 | **draw** | infinitive | the head of head's lance *not said here* | blood |  | the wind |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent blood=Theme from wind=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **descend** | infinitive | the head of head's lance *not said here* |  |  |  | again | upon wind's shaft | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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