More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 95

I broke seventeen ribs on one side, and twenty-one and a half on the other; but my arrow passed clean through without ever touching it, and the worst was I lost my arrow: however, I found it again in the hollow of a tree.

Who acts: I, arrow, worst · What happens: break, pass, touch, be, find · To what, where: seventeen ribs, one side, arrow, hollow

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, arrow, worst), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 ribs	nummod
4	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 broke	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 side	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 side	nummod
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 one	cc
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 one	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 twenty	punct
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 broke	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 half	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 half	det
15	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 one	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 other	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 other	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 half	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 passed	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 passed	cc
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 arrow	nmod:poss
22	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 passed	nsubj
23	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 broke	parataxis
24	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 passed	xcomp
25	through	through	ADV	_	23 passed	advmod
26	without	without	SCONJ	_	28 touching	mark
27	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 touching	advmod
28	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 passed	advcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 touching	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 lost	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 lost	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 worst	det
33	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 lost	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 lost	cop
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 lost	nsubj
36	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 passed	parataxis
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 arrow	nmod:poss
38	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lost	obj
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	43 found	punct
40	however	however	ADV	_	43 found	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 however	punct
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 found	nsubj
43	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 lost	conj
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 found	obj
45	again	again	ADV	_	43 found	advmod
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 hollow	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 hollow	det
48	hollow	hollow	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 found	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 tree	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 tree	det
51	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 hollow	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	I	seventeen ribs	one side			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rib=Patient
2	pass	past	my arrow				clean, through property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	touch	gerund	my arrow not said here	arrow		ever		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
4	is	past	the worst				lose property	tree rules
5	find	past	I	arrow	the hollow of a tree	again	however property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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