The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 24
But the youth did not lose his presence of mind, and drawing his bow he pierced the beast with his arrow right through the skull.
Who acts: youth · What happens: not lose, draw, pierce · To what, where: presence, bow, beast
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:1850): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 lose | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lose | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lose | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 lose | advmod |
| 6 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 presence | nmod:poss |
| 8 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lose | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mind | case |
| 10 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 presence | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pierced | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pierced | cc |
| 13 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 pierced | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bow | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drawing | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pierced | nsubj |
| 17 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lose | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 beast | det |
| 19 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pierced | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 arrow | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 22 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pierced | obl |
| 23 | right | right | ADV | _ | 26 skull | advmod |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 skull | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 skull | det |
| 26 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pierced | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lose | past · do-support | the youth | youth's presence of mind | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | draw | gerund | youth not said here | youth's bow | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pierce | past | youth | the beast | with youth's arrow; through the skull | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent beast=Instrument through skull=Patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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