Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 28
And he bent his bow, took aim, and shot an arrow at the old poet, right into his heart.
Who acts: moon · What happens: bend, take, shoot · To what, where: bow, aim, arrow, old poet
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 bent | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bent | nsubj |
| 3 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bow | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bent | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bent | conj |
| 8 | aim | aim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shot | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shot | cc |
| 11 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 arrow | det |
| 13 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shot | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 poet | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 poet | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 poet | amod |
| 17 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shot | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 heart | punct |
| 19 | right | right | ADV | _ | 22 heart | advmod |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 heart | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shot | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | past | moon | moon's bow | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent bow=Material | ||||
| 2 | take | past | moon not said here | aim | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shoot | past | moon not said here | a arrow | the old poet | into moon's heart | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme at poet=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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