The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 119

A second shot, directed at his forehead, fared no better, for this time the Stalo jumped so high to the other side that the arrow passed between his finger and thumb.

Who acts: second shot, Stalo, arrow · What happens: direct, fare, jump, pass · To what, where: second shot, forehead, better, other side, finger

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 (second shot, Stalo, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shot	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 shot	amod
3	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fared	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 directed	punct
5	directed	direct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 shot	acl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 forehead	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 forehead	nmod:poss
8	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 directed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fared	punct
10	fared	fare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	no	no	ADV	_	12 better	advmod
12	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 fared	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 jumped	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 time	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 jumped	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Stalo	det
18	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 jumped	nsubj
19	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fared	conj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 high	advmod
21	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 jumped	xcomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 side	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 side	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 side	amod
25	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 jumped	obl
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 passed	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 arrow	det
28	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 passed	nsubj
29	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 side	acl:relcl
30	between	between	ADP	_	32 finger	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 finger	nmod:poss
32	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 passed	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 thumb	cc
34	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 finger	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	direct	participle		a second shot not said here	shot's forehead			vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent at forehead=Eventuality
2	fare	past	a second shot	better				tree rules
3	jump	past	the Stalo			time	to the other side result; high property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to side=Result
4	pass	past	the arrow	the other side	arrow's finger and thumb			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent that=Theme between finger=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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