The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 31

Moreover, they shot another flight into the air, of which some fell on my face, which I immediately covered with my left hand.

Who acts: strings, some, I · What happens: shoot, fall, cover · To what, where: flight, air, face

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 (strings, some, I), 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	Moreover	moreover	ADV	_	4 shot	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Moreover	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shot	nsubj
4	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 flight	det
6	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shot	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 air	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shot	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fell	punct
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 fell	obl
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 fell	nsubj
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shot	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 face	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 face	nmod:poss
17	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fell	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 covered	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 covered	obj
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 covered	nsubj
21	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	22 covered	advmod
22	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 face	acl:relcl
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 hand	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hand	nmod:poss
25	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hand	amod
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 covered	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shoot	past	strings = string	another flight	the air	moreover property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent flight=Theme into air=Destination
2	fall	past	some		my face		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=Location
3	cover	past	I	my face		with my left hand; immediately property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent which=Destination with hand=Theme

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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