The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 71
The blood spurted out freely, and she fell to the ground as if she was dead.
Who acts: blood, Shoemaker · What happens: spurt out, fall, be · To what, where: blood
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blood, Shoemaker), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 blood | det |
| 2 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | spurted | spurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 blood | acl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 spurted | compound:prt |
| 5 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 3 spurted | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fell | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 ground | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ground | det |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 dead | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 dead | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 dead | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 dead | cop |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fell | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spurt out | participle | the blood not said here | freely property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | the blood | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Shoemaker | dead property | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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