The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 73

Then he set an arrow on the string and released it with such force that it went in at the monster’s eye right up to the notch.

Who acts: horse, string · What happens: set, release, go in · To what, where: arrow, string, eye

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, string), 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 set	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 arrow	det
5	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 string	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 string	det
8	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 released	cc
10	released	release	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 released	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 force	case
13	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 force	amod
14	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 released	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 went	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	advcl
18	in	in	ADV	_	17 went	advmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	23 eye	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 monster	det
21	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eye	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 monster	case
23	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	obl
24	right	right	ADV	_	28 notch	advmod
25	up	up	ADP	_	28 notch	case
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 notch	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 notch	det
28	notch	notch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	horse	a arrow	the string	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme on string=Destination
2	release	past	horse not said here	string			with such force	vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer it=Source
3	go in	past	string		the monster's eye		up the notch	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up notch=Initial_Location

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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