The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 117

Not that that would have mattered, for he was a good swimmer; but Andras drew out the bow and arrows which every Lapp carries, and took aim at him.

Who acts: Andras, Lapp · What happens: not matter, be, draw out, arrow, carry, take · To what, where: that, bow, aim

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Andras, Lapp), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 mattered	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 mattered	mark
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 mattered	nsubj:pass
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 mattered	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 mattered	aux
6	mattered	matter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mattered	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	13 swimmer	case
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 swimmer	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 swimmer	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 swimmer	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 swimmer	amod
13	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mattered	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 drew	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 drew	cc
16	Andras	Andras	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 drew	nsubj
17	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mattered	parataxis
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 drew	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bow	det
20	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drew	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 arrows	cc
22	arrows	arrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 drew	conj
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 carries	obj
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 Lapp	det
25	Lapp	lapp	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carries	nsubj
26	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 arrows	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 took	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 took	cc
29	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 drew	conj
30	aim	aim	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 took	obj
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 took	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 mattered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not matter	would · perfect · passive		that		tree rules
2	is	past	Andras		for a good swimmer	tree rules
3	draw out	past	Andras	the bow		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme
4	arrow	present	Andras not said here			tree rules
5	carry	present	every Lapp			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
6	take	past	Andras not said here	aim	at Andras	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent aim=Theme at he=Asset

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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