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title: Instantly the housekeeper fell down as if she were dead, and the blo… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Instantly the housekeeper fell down as if she were dead, and the blood streamed all over the ground. Who acts: housekeeper, Nina, blood. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 82

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Instantly the housekeeper fell down as if she were dead, and the blood streamed all over the ground.

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**Who acts:** housekeeper, Nina, blood · **What happens:** fall down, be, stream · **To what, where:** ground

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (housekeeper, Nina, blood), 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:pg7277:26:82
# text = Instantly the housekeeper fell down as if she were dead, and the blood streamed all over the ground.
1	Instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	housekeeper	housekeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	streamed	stream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall down** | past | the housekeeper |  |  |  |  | down, instantly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Nina |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stream** | participle | the blood |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over ground=Location |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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