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title: Some fell down dead as they came out before they had time to get awa… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Some fell down dead as they came out before they had time to get away; others crawled farther with great difficulty; while others again lay on the ground, fainting with hunger, and begged a morsel of bread from those who were going into the house, but they would not so much as look at the poor creat
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 131

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Some fell down dead as they came out before they had time to get away; others crawled farther with great difficulty; while others again lay on the ground, fainting with hunger, and begged a morsel of bread from those who were going into the house, but they would not so much as look at the poor creatures.

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**Who acts:** Some, people, others · **What happens:** fall down, come out, have, get away, crawl, lie · **To what, where:** ground, morsel, those, house

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, people, others), 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:pg503:39:131
# text = Some fell down dead as they came out before they had time to get away; others crawled farther with great difficulty; while others again lay on the ground, fainting with hunger, and begged a morsel of bread from those who were going into the house, but they would not so much as look at the poor creatures.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	crawled	crawl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	fainting	faint	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	37	obl	_	_
44	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
45	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	acl:relcl	_	_
47	into	into	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
51	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
52	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
53	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
54	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	56	advmod	_	_
55	so	so	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	much	much	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
57	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
58	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
59	at	at	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall down** | past | Some |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come out** | past | people |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | past | people |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get away** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **crawl** | past | others |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **lie** | past | others |  |  | the ground | again |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |
| 7 | **faint** | gerund | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with hunger | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | others *not said here* | a morsel of bread |  | those |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent morsel=Recipient |
| 9 | **go** | past · progressive |  |  |  | the house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial\_Location |
| 10 | **look** | would | people |  |  |  |  | at the poor creatures | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at creature=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 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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