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title: I broke seventeen ribs on one side, and twenty-one and a half on the… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I broke seventeen ribs on one side, and twenty-one and a half on the other; but my arrow passed clean through without ever touching it, and the worst was I lost my arrow: however, I found it again in the hollow of a tree. Who acts: I, arrow, worst. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 95

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I broke seventeen ribs on one side, and twenty-one and a half on the other; but my arrow passed clean through without ever touching it, and the worst was I lost my arrow: however, I found it again in the hollow of a tree.

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**Who acts:** I, arrow, worst · **What happens:** break, pass, touch, be, find · **To what, where:** seventeen ribs, one side, arrow, hollow

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, arrow, worst), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:18:95
# text = I broke seventeen ribs on one side, and twenty-one and a half on the other; but my arrow passed clean through without ever touching it, and the worst was I lost my arrow: however, I found it again in the hollow of a tree.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	ribs	rib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	12	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	through	through	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	28	advmod	_	_
28	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	36	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
37	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
40	however	however	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
42	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	again	again	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	hollow	hollow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | I | seventeen ribs |  | one side |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rib=Patient |
| 2 | **pass** | past | my arrow |  |  |  |  | clean, through *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **touch** | gerund | my arrow *not said here* | arrow |  |  | ever |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the worst |  |  |  |  | lose *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | past | I | arrow |  | the hollow of a tree | again | however *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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