The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 84
One day he was shooting at a mark with a silver bow; one of his arrows fell into the golden cage.
Who acts: boy, one · What happens: shoot, fall · To what, where: One day, mark, golden cage
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, one), 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 | 18 fell | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 shooting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shooting | aux |
| 5 | shooting | shoot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 day | acl:relcl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 mark | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mark | det |
| 8 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shooting | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 bow | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bow | det |
| 11 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bow | amod |
| 12 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shooting | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 arrows | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 17 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 cage | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cage | det |
| 21 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cage | amod |
| 22 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | past · progressive | boy | One day not said here | a mark | with a silver bow | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent day=Theme at mark=Destination | ||
| 2 | fall | past | one of boy's arrows | day | into the golden cage result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into cage=Result |
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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