The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 43
The bear took his crossbow from his neck and shot the reindeer in the chin; and, from that day to this, every reindeer has a mark in that same spot, which is always known as the bear’s arrow.
Who acts: bear, reindeer · What happens: take, shoot, have, know · To what, where: crossbow, neck, reindeer, chin, mark, same spot
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, reindeer), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bear | det |
| 2 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | 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 | 5 crossbow | nmod:poss |
| 5 | crossbow | crossbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 neck | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 neck | nmod:poss |
| 8 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shot | cc |
| 10 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 reindeer | det |
| 12 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shot | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 chin | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chin | det |
| 15 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shot | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 has | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 has | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 day | punct |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 day | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 has | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 this | case |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 day | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 day | punct |
| 25 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 reindeer | det |
| 26 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 has | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 mark | det |
| 29 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 has | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 spot | case |
| 31 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 spot | det |
| 32 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 spot | amod |
| 33 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 mark | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 known | punct |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 known | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 known | aux:pass |
| 37 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 38 known | advmod |
| 38 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 spot | acl:relcl |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 arrow | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 bear | det |
| 41 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 41 bear | case |
| 43 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 known | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the bear | fox's crossbow | fox's neck | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent crossbow=Theme from neck=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | shoot | past | the bear not said here | the reindeer | the chin | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent reindeer=Theme in chin=Destination | |||
| 3 | have | present | every reindeer | a mark | that same spot | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient | ||
| 4 | know | present · passive | that same spot | as the bear's arrow; always property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as arrow=Attribute |
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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