More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 94
So I set fire to my bow, poised my arrow, and shot amongst them.
Who acts: I, bow · What happens: set, poise, shoot · To what, where: fire, arrow
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bow), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 bow | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bow | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 poised | punct |
| 9 | poised | poise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bow | acl |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 11 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 poised | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shot | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shot | cc |
| 14 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | parataxis |
| 15 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 shot | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | I | fire | to my bow | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result | |||
| 2 | poise | participle | my bow not said here | my arrow | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shoot | past | amongst switches = switch | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent amongst they=Destination |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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