Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of William Tell., sentence 20

You must hit the apple with your one arrow.

Who acts: You · What happens: hit · To what, where: apple

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of William Tell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hit	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hit	aux
3	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 apple	det
5	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 arrow	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arrow	nmod:poss
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 arrow	nummod
9	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	must	You	the apple				with your one arrow	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent apple=Patient with arrow=Instrument

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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