The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 32

When this shower of arrows was over I groaned with grief and pain, and then, striving again to get loose, they discharged another flight of arrows larger than the first, and some of them tried to stab me with their spears; but by good luck I had on a leather jacket, which they could not pierce.

Who acts: shower, strings, some, I · What happens: be, strive, get, discharge, try, stab · To what, where: flight, me, leather jacket

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 (shower, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 groaned	advmod
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 shower	det
3	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 groaned	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 arrows	case
5	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shower	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 groaned	cop
7	over	over	SCONJ	_	9 groaned	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 groaned	nsubj
9	groaned	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 discharged	advcl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 grief	case
11	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 groaned	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pain	cc
13	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grief	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 striving	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 striving	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 striving	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 striving	punct
18	striving	strive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 groaned	advcl
19	again	again	ADV	_	18 striving	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 get	mark
21	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 striving	advcl
22	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 get	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 groaned	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 discharged	nsubj
25	discharged	discharge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	27 flight	det
27	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 discharged	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 arrows	case
29	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 flight	nmod
30	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 arrows	amod
31	than	than	ADP	_	33 first	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 first	det
33	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 larger	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 tried	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 tried	cc
36	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	39 tried	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 them	case
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 some	nmod
39	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 discharged	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 stab	mark
41	stab	stab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 tried	xcomp
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 stab	obj
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 spears	case
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 spears	nmod:poss
45	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 stab	obl
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 had	punct
47	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 had	cc
48	by	by	ADP	_	50 luck	case
49	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 luck	amod
50	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 had	obl
51	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 had	nsubj
52	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 discharged	conj
53	on	on	ADP	_	56 jacket	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 jacket	det
55	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 jacket	compound
56	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 had	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 pierce	punct
58	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	62 pierce	obj
59	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 pierce	nsubj
60	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 pierce	aux
61	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	62 pierce	advmod
62	pierce	pierce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 jacket	acl:relcl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 discharged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this shower of arrows				with grief and pain; groan property	tree rules
2	strive	gerund	this shower of arrows not said here			then; again		tree rules
3	get	to-infinitive	this shower of arrows not said here				loose property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	discharge	past	strings = string	another flight of arrows				vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme
5	try	past	some					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	stab not said to happen	to-infinitive	some not said here	me			with strings's spears	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Patient with spear=Instrument
7	have	past	I		a leather jacket		by good luck	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	not pierce	could	strings = string	a leather jacket				vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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