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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sprang	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 once	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 sprang	obl
4	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	4 sprang	advmod
6	toward	toward	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sprang	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lifted	punct
9	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sprang	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lifted	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 lifted	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bore	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bore	cc
14	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sprang	parataxis
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bore	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 room	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 room	det
18	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bore	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 laid	punct
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 laid	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 laid	nsubj
22	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 bore	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 laid	obj
24	down	down	ADP	_	22 laid	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 drew	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 drew	cc
27	kneeling	kneel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 drew	csubj
28	beside	beside	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 kneeling	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 drew	nsubj
31	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sprang	parataxis
32	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 drops	nummod
33	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 drew	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 blood	case
35	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 drops	nmod
36	from	from	ADP	_	39 side	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 side	nmod:poss
38	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 side	amod
39	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 drew	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 spat	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 spat	cc
42	spat	spat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 drew	conj
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 spat	obj
44	out	out	ADP	_	42 spat	compound:prt
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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.

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