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title: Then they seized the bows and arrows which were hanging on the walls… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they seized the bows and arrows which were hanging on the walls and, once outside, aimed at the flying mink; but as they pulled the bows broke in their paws, so they threw them away, and bounded to the shore, with all their speed, to the place where their canoes were drawn up on the beach. Who 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 63

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Then they seized the bows and arrows which were hanging on the walls and, once outside, aimed at the flying mink; but as they pulled the bows broke in their paws, so they threw them away, and bounded to the shore, with all their speed, to the place where their canoes were drawn up on the beach.

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**Who acts:** Mink, bows · **What happens:** seize, hang, aim, fly, pull, break · **To what, where:** bows, walls, paws, arrows, shore, canoes

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mink, bows), 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:pg3027:34:63
# text = Then they seized the bows and arrows which were hanging on the walls and, once outside, aimed at the flying mink; but as they pulled the bows broke in their paws, so they threw them away, and bounded to the shore, with all their speed, to the place where their canoes were drawn up on the beach.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	advmod	_	_
17	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	aimed	aim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
23	mink	mink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	away	away	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	bounded	bound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	51	det:predet	_	_
50	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	parataxis	_	_
56	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	60	advmod	_	_
57	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	nsubj:pass	_	_
59	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	aux:pass	_	_
60	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	55	acl:relcl	_	_
61	up	up	ADP	RP	_	60	compound:prt	_	_
62	on	on	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | Mink | the bows and arrows |  |  | then |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme |
| 2 | **hang** | past · progressive | the bows and arrows |  |  | the walls |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location |
| 3 | **aim** | participle | Mink *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the flying mink; outside *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pull** | past | Mink |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **break** | past | the bows |  |  | Mink's paws |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in paw=Location |
| 7 | **throw away** | past | Mink | arrows *= arrow* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 8 | **bound** | participle | Mink *not said here* |  |  | the shore |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination |
| 9 | **draw up** | past · passive |  | Mink's canoes |  | the beach |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on beach=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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