The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 75
Then the prince took a second arrow and shot into its throat.
Who acts: prince · What happens: take, shoot · To what, where: second arrow, throat
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 (prince), 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 | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 arrow | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 arrow | amod |
| 7 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shot | cc |
| 9 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 throat | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 throat | nmod:poss |
| 12 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shot | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the prince | a second arrow | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme | |||
| 2 | shoot | past | the prince not said here | dragon's throat | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into throat=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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