The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 118
His aim was good, but the Stalo sprang so high into the air that the arrow flew between his feet.
Who acts: aim, Stalo, arrow, Andras · What happens: be, spring, fly, aim · To what, where: air, feet
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 (aim, Stalo, arrow, Andras), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 aim | nmod:poss |
| 2 | aim | aim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 good | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | cop |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sprang | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 sprang | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Stalo | det |
| 8 | Stalo | Stalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sprang | nsubj |
| 9 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | conj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 high | advmod |
| 11 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 sprang | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sprang | obl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 flew | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 arrow | det |
| 17 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flew | nsubj |
| 18 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sprang | advcl |
| 19 | between | between | ADP | _ | 21 feet | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 feet | nmod:poss |
| 21 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 flew | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Andras's aim | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spring | past | the Stalo | the air | high property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Destination | |||
| 3 | fly | past | the arrow | Andras's feet | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between foot=Location | ||||
| 4 | aim | Andras | nom aim «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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