English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 60

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

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

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.

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	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fell	xcomp
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 stood	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stood	nsubj
9	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ground	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 suck	punct
11	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 suck	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 spider	det
13	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 suck	nsubj
14	suck	suck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fell	conj
15	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 suck	ccomp
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 drop	det
17	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 suck	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 blood	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 blood	nmod:poss
20	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drop	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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: «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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