The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 81

One day, however, when the father had gone to a little distance to collect some sticks for the fire, the boy fetched his bow, and shot at a bird that was just flying towards its nest.

Who acts: father, boy, bird · What happens: go, collect, fetch, shoot, fly · To what, where: sticks, bow, nest

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, boy, bird), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 collect	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	16 collect	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 gone	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 father	det
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gone	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	aux
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 collect	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 distance	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 distance	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 distance	amod
14	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gone	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 collect	mark
16	collect	collect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 sticks	det
18	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 collect	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 fire	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fire	det
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 collect	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fetched	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 boy	det
24	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fetched	nsubj
25	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 collect	parataxis
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 bow	nmod:poss
27	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fetched	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 shot	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 shot	cc
30	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fetched	conj
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 bird	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 bird	det
33	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shot	obl
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 flying	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 flying	aux
36	just	just	ADV	_	37 flying	advmod
37	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 bird	acl:relcl
38	towards	towards	ADP	_	40 nest	case
39	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 nest	nmod:poss
40	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 flying	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 collect	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	the father				to a little distance	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to distance=Initial_Location
2	collect	to-infinitive		some sticks		day	for the fire; however property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
3	fetch	past	the boy	Father's bow				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme
4	shoot	past	the boy not said here				at a bird	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at bird=Destination
5	fly	past · progressive	a bird		bow's nest			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards nest=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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