The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 81
And, without waiting for a reply, pressed forward to drive his arrow into the heart of the bear.
What happens: wait, press forward, drive · To what, where: arrow, heart
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 waiting | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 waiting | punct |
| 3 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 4 waiting | mark |
| 4 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 reply | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 reply | det |
| 7 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waiting | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pressed | punct |
| 9 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 waiting | conj |
| 10 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 9 pressed | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 drive | mark |
| 12 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pressed | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 14 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drive | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 heart | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 heart | det |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drive | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 bear | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bear | det |
| 20 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heart | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | for a reply | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | press forward | participle | forward property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drive | to-infinitive | bear's arrow | the heart of the bear | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme into heart=Trajectory |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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