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title: After some moments she began to perceive that the floor was all cove… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After some moments she began to perceive that the floor was all covered over with clotted blood, on which lay the bodies of several dead women, ranged against the walls. Who acts: manner. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 23

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After some moments she began to perceive that the floor was all covered over with clotted blood, on which lay the bodies of several dead women, ranged against the walls.

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**Who acts:** manner · **What happens:** begin, perceive, cover over, clot, lie, range · **To what, where:** floor, bodies, several dead women

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manner), 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:pg503:40:23
# text = After some moments she began to perceive that the floor was all covered over with clotted blood, on which lay the bodies of several dead women, ranged against the walls.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	perceive	perceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
14	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	clotted	clot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	ranged	range	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
30	against	against	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | manner |  |  |  | moment |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **perceive** | to-infinitive | manner *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **cover over** | past · passive |  | the floor |  |  |  | with clotted blood; all, over *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with blood=Theme |
| 4 | **clot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lie** | past |  | the bodies of several dead women |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location body=Theme |
| 6 | **range** | participle |  | several dead women *not said here* |  |  |  | against the walls | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: 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 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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