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title: A second shot, directed at his forehead, fared no better, for this t… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A second shot, directed at his forehead, fared no better, for this time the Stalo jumped so high to the other side that the arrow passed between his finger and thumb. Who acts: second shot, Stalo, arrow. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 119

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A second shot, directed at his forehead, fared no better, for this time the Stalo jumped so high to the other side that the arrow passed between his finger and thumb.

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**Who acts:** second shot, Stalo, arrow · **What happens:** direct, fare, jump, pass · **To what, where:** second shot, forehead, better, other side, finger

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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 (second shot, Stalo, arrow), 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:pg3027:36:119
# text = A second shot, directed at his forehead, fared no better, for this time the Stalo jumped so high to the other side that the arrow passed between his finger and thumb.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	shot	shot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	directed	direct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	fared	fare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	no	no	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	between	between	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **direct** | participle |  | a second shot *not said here* |  | shot's forehead |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent at forehead=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fare** | past | a second shot | better |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **jump** | past | the Stalo |  |  |  | time | to the other side *result*; high *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to side=Result |
| 4 | **pass** | past | the arrow | the other side |  | arrow's finger and thumb |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent that=Theme between finger=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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