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title: And when the sea beast leaped out once more its eyes fell on the hea… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the sea beast leaped out once more its eyes fell on the head, and instantly it was turned into a stone. Who acts: sea beast, eyes. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 104

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And when the sea beast leaped out once more its eyes fell on the head, and instantly it was turned into a stone.

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**Who acts:** sea beast, eyes · **What happens:** leap out, fall, turn · **To what, where:** head, stone

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea beast, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg503:2089`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:27:104
# text = And when the sea beast leaped out once more its eyes fell on the head, and instantly it was turned into a stone.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap out** | past | the sea beast |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past | Head's eyes |  |  | the head |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location |
| 3 | **turn** | past · passive |  | Head |  | a stone |  | instantly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into stone=Trajectory |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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