The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 27

But mindful of the black girl’s commands, he dared not spare the little creature’s life, and taking another arrow from his quiver he laid it as dead as the boar and the hare.

Who acts: hare, black girl · What happens: spare, take, lay, command, quiver · To what, where: life, arrow, quiver · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (hare, black girl), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 mindful	cc
2	mindful	mindful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 commands	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girl	det
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 girl	amod
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 commands	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 girl	case
8	commands	command	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mindful	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spare	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 spare	nsubj
11	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 spare	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 dared	advmod
13	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 mindful	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 creature	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 creature	amod
16	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 life	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 creature	case
18	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spare	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 taking	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 taking	cc
21	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 spare	advcl
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	23 arrow	det
23	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 taking	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 quiver	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 quiver	nmod:poss
26	quiver	quiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 taking	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 laid	nsubj
28	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 quiver	acl:relcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 laid	obj
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 dead	advmod
31	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 laid	xcomp
32	as	as	ADP	_	34 boar	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 boar	det
34	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 taking	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 hare	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hare	det
37	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 boar	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mindful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spare	past	hare	the little creature's life			vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset
2	take	gerund	hare not said here	another arrow	hare's quiver	as the boar and the hare	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme from quiver=Initial_Location
3	lay	past	hare	arrow		dead property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result
4	command		the black girl				nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent
5	quiver		hare				nom quiver «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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