Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 30
So, drawing it back, he took an arrow, aimed, and shot the good old poet right in the heart. "
Who acts: boy · What happens: draw back, take, aim, shoot · To what, where: string, arrow, good old poet, heart
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Saucy Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 took | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 took | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drawing | obj |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 drawing | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 drawing | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 arrow | det |
| 10 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 aimed | punct |
| 12 | aimed | aim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 arrow | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shot | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shot | cc |
| 15 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 poet | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 poet | amod |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 poet | amod |
| 19 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shot | obj |
| 20 | right | right | ADV | _ | 23 heart | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 heart | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 heart | det |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shot | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw back | gerund | boy not said here | string | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | boy | a arrow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | aim | participle | a arrow not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | shoot | past | boy not said here | the good old poet | the heart | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent poet=Theme in heart=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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