The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 46

But when he saw the blood pouring from his face, he went to a corner of the court and began to cry, which was the strangest thing of all.’

Who acts: Sire, blood · What happens: see, pour, go, begin, cry, be · To what, where: blood, face, corner, strangest thing

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sire, blood), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 blood	det
6	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
7	pouring	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 blood	acl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 face	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 face	nmod:poss
10	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pouring	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 corner	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 corner	det
16	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 court	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 court	det
19	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 corner	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 began	cc
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 cry	mark
23	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thing	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 thing	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 thing	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 thing	det
28	strangest	strange	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 thing	amod
29	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cry	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 all	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 thing	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Sire	the blood			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus
2	pour	gerund	the blood not said here		Sire's face		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from face=Source
3	go	past	Sire		a corner of the court		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to corner=Initial_Location
4	begin	past	Sire not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	Sire not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past		the strangest thing		of all	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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/3/46/