The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 30
But the creatures ran off a second time before I could seize them, whereupon there was a great shout, and in an instant I felt above a hundred arrows discharged on my left hand, which pricked me like so many needles.
Who acts: creatures, I, left hand · What happens: run off, seize, be, feel, discharge, prick · To what, where: strings, great shout, hundred arrows, left hand, me
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creatures, I, left hand), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 ran | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 creatures | det |
| 3 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 ran | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 seize | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 seize | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 seize | aux |
| 12 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ran | advcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seize | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shout | punct |
| 15 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 was | advmod |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 shout | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 shout | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 shout | amod |
| 20 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seize | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 felt | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 felt | cc |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 instant | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 instant | det |
| 25 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 felt | obl |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 felt | nsubj |
| 27 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 28 | above | above | ADP | _ | 31 arrows | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 hundred | det |
| 30 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 arrows | nummod |
| 31 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 felt | obl |
| 32 | discharged | discharge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 arrows | acl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 hand | case |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 hand | nmod:poss |
| 35 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 hand | amod |
| 36 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 discharged | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 pricked | punct |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 pricked | nsubj |
| 39 | pricked | prick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 hand | acl:relcl |
| 40 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 pricked | obj |
| 41 | like | like | ADP | _ | 44 needles | case |
| 42 | so | so | ADV | _ | 43 many | advmod |
| 43 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 needles | amod |
| 44 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 pricked | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | the creatures | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seize | could | I | strings = string | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | a great shout | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | feel | past | I | above hundred arrows; in a instant | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in instant=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | discharge | participle | hundred arrows not said here | my left hand | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | prick | past | my left hand | me | like many needles | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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