The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 8

Then take aim with your gun and shoot in the middle of them; they will let the cloak fall, but one of the birds will be hit and will drop down dead.

Who acts: you, gun · What happens: take, let, hit, drop down · To what, where: aim, cloak fall, one

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 (you, gun), 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	2 take	advmod
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	aim	aim	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 gun	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 gun	nmod:poss
6	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shoot	cc
8	shoot	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gun	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 middle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 middle	det
11	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shoot	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 middle	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 let	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 let	aux
17	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 take	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fall	det
19	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fall	compound
20	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 let	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hit	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 hit	cc
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 hit	nsubj:pass
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 birds	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 birds	det
26	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 one	nmod
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 hit	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 hit	aux:pass
29	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 let	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 drop	cc
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 drop	aux
32	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 hit	conj
33	down	down	ADP	_	32 drop	compound:prt
34	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 drop	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	aim	then	with your gun and shoot in the middle of gun	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Theme
2	let	future	gun	the cloak fall			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=Theme
3	hit	future · passive		one of the birds			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
4	drop down	future				dead property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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