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description: One day, however, when the father had gone to a little distance to collect some sticks for the fire, the boy fetched his bow, and shot at a bird that was just flying towards its nest. Who acts: father, boy, bird. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13,
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 81

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One day, however, when the father had gone to a little distance to collect some sticks for the fire, the boy fetched his bow, and shot at a bird that was just flying towards its nest.

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**Who acts:** father, boy, bird · **What happens:** go, collect, fetch, shoot, fly · **To what, where:** sticks, bow, nest

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, boy, bird), 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:pg2435:13:81
# text = One day, however, when the father had gone to a little distance to collect some sticks for the fire, the boy fetched his bow, and shot at a bird that was just flying towards its nest.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	collect	collect	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	just	just	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | the father |  |  |  |  | to a little distance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to distance=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **collect** | to-infinitive |  | some sticks |  |  | day | for the fire; however *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 3 | **fetch** | past | the boy | Father's bow |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme |
| 4 | **shoot** | past | the boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at a bird | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at bird=Destination |
| 5 | **fly** | past · progressive | a bird |  |  | bow's nest |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards nest=Destination |

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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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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