The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 62

In a moment she was up and away, but the prince, not knowing how else to capture her, aimed an arrow at her leg, which brought her to the ground.

Who acts: Eglantine, arrow · What happens: be, not know, capture, aim, bring · To what, where: Eglantine, arrow, leg, ground

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eglantine, arrow), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 aimed	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 up	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 up	cop
6	up	up	ADV	_	3 moment	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 away	cc
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 up	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 prince	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 prince	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 prince	det
12	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moment	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 knowing	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 knowing	advmod
15	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 prince	conj
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 else	advmod
17	else	else	ADV	_	15 knowing	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 capture	mark
19	capture	capture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 knowing	advcl
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 capture	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 moment	punct
22	aimed	aim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 arrow	det
24	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 aimed	obj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 leg	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 leg	nmod:poss
27	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 arrow	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 brought	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 brought	nsubj
30	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 arrow	acl:relcl
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 brought	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 ground	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ground	det
34	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 brought	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 aimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Eglantine				up property	tree rules
2	not know	gerund					else property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	capture	to-infinitive		Eglantine				vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	aim	past		a arrow	Eglantine's leg	moment		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot arrow=Theme
5	bring	past	a arrow	Eglantine	the ground			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to ground=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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