The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 90

When he saw her he fired a shot at her, as he would have fired at a wild beast.

Who acts: spinner · What happens: see, fire · To what, where: bride, shot, spinner, wild beast

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spinner), 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	3 saw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fired	advcl
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fired	nsubj
6	fired	fire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shot	det
8	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fired	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fired	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fired	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 fired	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fired	nsubj:pass
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 fired	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 fired	aux
16	fired	fire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fired	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 beast	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 beast	det
19	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 beast	amod
20	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fired	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	spinner	bride			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	fire	past	spinner	a shot		at bride	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shot=Theme at she=Destination
3	fire	would · perfect · passive		spinner	a wild beast		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme at beast=Destination

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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