The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 120

Then Andras aimed his third arrow a little over the Stalo's head, and when he sprang up, just an instant too soon, it hit him between the ribs.

Who acts: Andras, arrow, head · What happens: aim, spring up, hit · To what, where: third arrow, instant, arrow, ribs

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, arrow, head), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 aimed	advmod
2	Andras	Andras	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 aimed	nsubj
3	aimed	aim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 arrow	nmod:poss
5	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 arrow	amod
6	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 aimed	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 little	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 aimed	obl
9	over	over	ADP	_	13 head	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Stalo	det
11	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 head	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Stalo	case
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 little	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sprang	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sprang	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 sprang	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sprang	nsubj
18	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 aimed	conj
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 sprang	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 instant	punct
21	just	just	ADV	_	23 instant	advmod
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 instant	det
23	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sprang	obl
24	too	too	ADV	_	25 soon	advmod
25	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 sprang	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hit	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hit	nsubj
28	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 aimed	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hit	obj
30	between	between	ADP	_	32 ribs	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ribs	det
32	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hit	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 aimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	aim	past	Andras	Andras's third arrow		then	a little over the Stalo's head obl	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot arrow=Theme
2	spring up	past	arrow	a instant			soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hit	past	head	arrow	the ribs			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme between rib=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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