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title: His aim was good, but the Stalo sprang so high into the air that the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His aim was good, but the Stalo sprang so high into the air that the arrow flew between his feet. Who acts: aim, Stalo, arrow, Andras. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 118

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His aim was good, but the Stalo sprang so high into the air that the arrow flew between his feet.

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**Who acts:** aim, Stalo, arrow, Andras · **What happens:** be, spring, fly, aim · **To what, where:** air, feet

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (aim, Stalo, arrow, Andras), 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:pg3027:36:118
# text = His aim was good, but the Stalo sprang so high into the air that the arrow flew between his feet.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	aim	aim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
19	between	between	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Andras's aim |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spring** | past | the Stalo |  |  | the air |  | high *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Destination |
| 3 | **fly** | past | the arrow |  |  | Andras's feet |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between foot=Location |
| 4 | **aim** |  | Andras |  |  |  |  |  | nom aim «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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