The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 90

He took his bow, and aiming an arrow at the largest wolf, shot him through the heart, and a few more arrows soon put the rest to flight.

Who acts: boy, few more arrows · What happens: take, aim, shoot, put · To what, where: bow, arrow, largest wolf, boy, heart, rest

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 (boy, few more arrows), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bow	nmod:poss
4	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 aiming	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 aiming	cc
7	aiming	aim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 took	advcl
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 arrow	det
9	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 aiming	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 wolf	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wolf	det
12	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 wolf	amod
13	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 aiming	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shot	punct
15	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 shot	obj
17	through	through	ADP	_	19 heart	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 heart	det
19	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shot	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 put	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 put	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 arrows	det
23	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 arrows	amod
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 arrows	amod
25	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 put	nsubj
26	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 put	advmod
27	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rest	det
29	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 flight	case
31	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	boy	boy's bow			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme
2	aim	gerund	boy not said here	a arrow	the largest wolf		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot arrow=Theme
3	shoot	past	boy not said here	boy	the heart		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme through heart=Destination
4	put	present	a few more arrows	the rest		to flight; soon property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rest=Goal

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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