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title: And as she drank thus, and leaned right over the water, the rag cont… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And as she drank thus, and leaned right over the water, the rag containing the three drops of blood fell from her bosom and floated down the stream, and she in her anxiety never even noticed her loss. Who acts: heart, rag. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl, with its 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 19

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And as she drank thus, and leaned right over the water, the rag containing the three drops of blood fell from her bosom and floated down the stream, and she in her anxiety never even noticed her loss.

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**Who acts:** heart, rag · **What happens:** drink, learn, contain, fall, float, not notice · **To what, where:** water, three drops, bosom, stream, mother

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, rag), 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:pg503:37:19
# text = And as she drank thus, and leaned right over the water, the rag containing the three drops of blood fell from her bosom and floated down the stream, and she in her anxiety never even noticed her loss.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	leaned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	right	right	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rag	rag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
16	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	floated	float	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
28	down	down	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
38	even	even	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
40	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | heart |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **learn** | past |  |  |  | the water |  | right *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **contain** | gerund | the rag *not said here* | the three drops of blood |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot drop=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | past | the rag |  |  | heart's bosom |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from bosom=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **float** | participle | the rag *not said here* |  |  | the stream |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down stream=Trajectory |
| 6 | **not** **notice** | past | heart | mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **bosom** |  | heart |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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