The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 132

At last they happened to let fly their arrows both together, and when they fell to earth again the tail feather of a golden hen was found sticking in one.

Who acts: toys, last, tail feather · What happens: happen, let, fly, fall, find, stick · To what, where: arrows, tail feather

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (toys, last, tail feather), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fell	nsubj
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 last	acl:relcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 let	mark
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	xcomp
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arrows	nmod:poss
9	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fly	obj
10	both	both	ADV	_	11 together	advmod
11	together	together	ADV	_	7 fly	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fell	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fell	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 fell	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fell	nsubj
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 earth	case
18	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fell	obl
19	again	again	ADV	_	22 feather	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 feather	det
21	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 feather	compound
22	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 found	nsubj:pass
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 hen	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hen	det
25	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hen	amod
26	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 feather	nmod
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 found	aux:pass
28	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 fell	parataxis
29	sticking	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 found	xcomp
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 one	case
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 sticking	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	past	toys = toy			tree rules
2	let	to-infinitive	toys = toy not said here			tree rules
3	fly	infinitive	toys = toy not said here	toys's arrows	together property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location arrow=Theme
4	fall	past	last		to earth	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme
5	find	past · passive		the tail feather of a golden hen		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
6	stick	gerund	the tail feather of a golden hen not said here		in one	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in one=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 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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