The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 14

It is just as the old woman said’; and he took his gun on his shoulder, pulled the trigger, and shot into the midst of them, so that their feathers flew about.

Who acts: cloth, Hunter, feathers · What happens: be, take, pull, shoot, fly · To what, where: gun, shoulder, trigger, midst

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloth, Hunter, feathers), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	8 said	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 said	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 took	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 gun	nmod:poss
15	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 shoulder	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 shoulder	nmod:poss
18	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pulled	punct
20	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 trigger	det
22	trigger	trigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pulled	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 shot	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 shot	cc
25	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	conj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 midst	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 midst	det
28	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shot	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 midst	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 flew	punct
32	so	so	ADV	_	36 flew	advmod
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 flew	mark
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 feathers	nmod:poss
35	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 flew	nsubj
36	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	conj
37	about	about	ADV	_	36 flew	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	cloth			say property	tree rules
2	take	past	Hunter	Hunter's gun	Hunter's shoulder		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gun=Theme on shoulder=Destination
3	pull	past	Hunter not said here	the trigger			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trigger=Theme
4	shoot	past	Hunter not said here		the midst of shoulders		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into midst=Destination
5	fly	past	shoulders's feathers			about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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