The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 21

Then it sped onwards like an arrow from a bow.

Who acts: master · What happens: speed

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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	3 sped	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sped	nsubj
3	sped	speed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	onwards	onwards	ADV	_	3 sped	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 arrow	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 arrow	det
7	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sped	obl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 bow	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bow	det
10	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arrow	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speed	past	master				then	like a arrow from a bow; onwards property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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