--- title: He at once sprang hastily toward her, lifted her up, and bore her to… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He at once sprang hastily toward her, lifted her up, and bore her to a room, where he laid her down, and kneeling beside her he drew three drops of blood from her right side, and spat them out. Who acts: Trusty. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John, with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/41/93/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Trusty John](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/41/) / 93 # The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 93 He at once sprang hastily toward her, lifted her up, and bore her to a room, where he laid her down, and kneeling beside her he drew three drops of blood from her right side, and spat them out. **Who acts:** Trusty · **What happens:** spring, lift up, bear, lay down, kneel, draw · **To what, where:** wedding, three drops, right side, drops This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Trusty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:41:93 # text = He at once sprang hastily toward her, lifted her up, and bore her to a room, where he laid her down, and kneeling beside her he drew three drops of blood from her right side, and spat them out. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 4 obl _ _ 4 sprang spring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 hastily hastily ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 toward toward ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 bore bear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 15 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 22 advmod _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 23 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 down down ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 kneeling kneel VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 csubj _ _ 28 beside beside ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 32 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 drops drop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 spat spat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 43 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 out out ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spring** | past | Trusty | | | | | toward wedding; hastily *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory | | 2 | **lift up** | past | Trusty *not said here* | wedding | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 3 | **bear** | past | | wedding | | | | to a room | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 4 | **lay down** | past | Trusty | wedding | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Result | | 5 | **kneel** | gerund | | | | | | beside wedding | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location | | 6 | **draw** | past | Trusty | three drops of blood | | wedding's right side | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent drop=Theme from side=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **spat out** | infinitive | Trusty *not said here* | drops *= drop* | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/41/92/) - next →: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/41/94/) - ↑ back to [Trusty John](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/41/)