The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 24

So they went forth into the wood, and shot hares and roe-deer, birds and wood-pigeons, and any other game they came across.

Who acts: hands, other game · What happens: go, shoot, come · To what, where: wood, hares

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands, other game), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	forth	forth	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shot	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shot	cc
10	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shot	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 deer	cc
13	roe	roe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 deer	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 roe	punct
15	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hares	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 birds	punct
17	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hares	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pigeons	cc
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pigeons	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 wood	punct
21	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hares	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 came	cc
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 game	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 game	amod
26	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	nsubj
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
29	across	across	ADV	_	28 came	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	hands = hand		the wood	forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location
2	shoot	past	hands = hand not said here	hares and roe deer and birds and wood pigeons			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme
3	come	past	any other game			across property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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