The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 11
The eldest prince took an arrow, and shot it into the trunk of one of the birch trees.
Who acts: eldest prince · What happens: take, shoot · To what, where: arrow, trunk
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest prince), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 prince | amod |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 arrow | det |
| 6 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shot | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shot | cc |
| 9 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shot | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 trunk | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trunk | det |
| 13 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shot | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 trunk | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 trees | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 trees | det |
| 18 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trees | compound |
| 19 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 one | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the eldest prince | a arrow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shoot | past | the eldest prince not said here | arrow | the trunk of one of the birch trees | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme into trunk=Destination |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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