The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 1

After about two hours the Court retired, and I was left with a strong guard to keep away the crowd, some of whom had had the impudence to shoot their arrows at me as I sat by the door of my house.

Who acts: Court, some, impudence, I · What happens: retire, leave, keep away, have, shoot, sit · To what, where: I, crowd, impudence, arrows

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Court, some, impudence, 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 hours	case
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 two	advmod
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hours	nummod
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 retired	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Court	det
6	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 retired	nsubj
7	retired	retire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 left	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 left	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 left	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 left	aux:pass
12	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 retired	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 guard	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 guard	det
15	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 guard	amod
16	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 left	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 keep	mark
18	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 left	advcl
19	away	away	ADP	_	18 keep	compound:prt
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 crowd	det
21	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keep	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 had	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 whom	case
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 had	obl
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 had	aux
27	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 retired	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 impudence	det
29	impudence	impudence	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 shoot	mark
31	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 had	xcomp
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 arrows	nmod:poss
33	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 shoot	obj
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 me	case
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 shoot	obl
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 sat	mark
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 sat	nsubj
38	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 shoot	advcl
39	by	by	ADP	_	41 door	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 door	det
41	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sat	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 house	case
43	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 house	nmod:poss
44	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 door	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 retired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	retire	past	the Court		hour		vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	leave	past · passive		I		with a strong guard	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with guard=Theme
3	keep away	to-infinitive		the crowd			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crowd=Theme
4	have	past · perfect	some	the impudence			tree rules
5	shoot	to-infinitive	the impudence not said here	their arrows		at me	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme at i=Destination
6	sit	past	I			by the door of my house	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=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 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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