The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 124
Then he drew his bow, and shot an arrow straight into the man’s knee.
Who acts: messenger · What happens: draw, shoot · To what, where: bow, arrow, knee
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bow | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shot | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shot | cc |
| 8 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 arrow | det |
| 10 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shot | obj |
| 11 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 16 knee | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 knee | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knee | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 man | case |
| 16 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shot | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | messenger | messenger's bow | then | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | |||
| 2 | shoot | past | messenger not said here | a arrow | the man's knee | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme into knee=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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