The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 105

This was a great delight to him, but he soon found out that he was not to be left quite at peace, for all the marksmen and hunters who saw him aimed at him and fired away, for they had no other birds to shoot at than himself, as the troll had tied up all the others.

Who acts: This, lad, hunters, dogs, other birds · What happens: be, find out, not leave, see, aim, fire away · To what, where: great delight, lad, peace, other birds, troll

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, lad, hunters, dogs), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 delight	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delight	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 delight	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 delight	amod
5	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 delight	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 found	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 found	nsubj
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 found	advmod
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delight	parataxis
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 found	compound:prt
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 left	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 left	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 left	aux:pass
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 left	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	20 left	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 left	aux:pass
20	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 found	advcl
21	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 left	advmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 peace	case
23	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 left	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 marksmen	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 marksmen	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 marksmen	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 marksmen	det
28	marksmen	marksman	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 left	parataxis
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hunters	cc
30	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 marksmen	conj
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 saw	nsubj
32	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 hunters	acl:relcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 saw	obj
34	aimed	aim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 saw	xcomp
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 aimed	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 fired	cc
38	fired	fire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 aimed	conj
39	away	away	ADV	_	38 fired	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 had	punct
41	for	for	ADP	_	43 had	case
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 had	nsubj
43	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 fired	conj
44	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	46 birds	det
45	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 birds	amod
46	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 had	obj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 shoot	mark
48	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 had	xcomp
49	at	at	ADP	_	51 himself	case
50	than	than	ADP	_	49 at	fixed
51	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	48 shoot	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 tied	punct
53	as	as	SCONJ	_	57 tied	mark
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 troll	det
55	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 tied	nsubj:pass
56	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 tied	aux
57	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 shoot	conj
58	up	up	ADP	_	57 tied	compound:prt
59	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	61 others	det:predet
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 others	det
61	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 tied	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 delight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	This	a great delight	lad			tree rules
2	find out	past	lad				soon property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	not leave	past · passive		lad		peace		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at peace=Location
4	see	past	hunters	lad				tree rules
5	aim	participle	lad not said here				at lad	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	fire away	participle	lad not said here				away property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	have	past	dogs = dog	no other birds				tree rules
8	shoot	to-infinitive	no other birds not said here				at lad	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at himself=Destination
9	tie up	past · perfect · passive		the troll				vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient other=Result

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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