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title: He fell dead on the ground where he stood, And the spider suck'd eve… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He fell dead on the ground where he stood, And the spider suck'd every drop of his blood. Who acts: king, spider. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 60

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He fell dead on the ground where he stood, And the spider suck'd every drop of his blood.

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**Who acts:** king, spider · **What happens:** fall, stand, suck · **To what, where:** ground, drop

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, spider), 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:pg7439:28:60
# text = He fell dead on the ground where he stood, And the spider suck'd every drop of his blood.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	suck	suck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | king |  |  | the ground |  | dead *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **suck** | infinitive | the spider | every drop of king's blood |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent drop=Source |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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