The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 133

Now the question began to arise whose was the lucky arrow, for they were both alike, and look as closely as you would you could see no difference between them.

Who acts: question, arrows, you · What happens: begin, arise, be, look, see · To what, where: lucky arrow, difference

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 (question, arrows, you), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 question	det
3	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 arise	mark
6	arise	arise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 arrow	nmod:poss
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 arrow	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 arrow	det
10	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 arrow	amod
11	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arise	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 alike	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 alike	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 alike	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 alike	cop
16	both	both	ADV	_	17 alike	advmod
17	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 arrow	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 look	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 look	cc
20	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 arise	conj
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 closely	advmod
22	closely	closely	ADV	_	20 look	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 see	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 see	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 see	aux
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 see	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 see	aux
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 look	advcl
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 difference	det
30	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 see	obj
31	between	between	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 difference	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the question		now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	arise	to-infinitive	the question not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past		the lucky arrow			tree rules
4	is	past	arrows = arrow			alike, both property	tree rules
5	look	infinitive	the question not said here			closely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	see	could	you	no difference		between arrows = arrow	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer difference=Stimulus

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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