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title: At last they happened to let fly their arrows both together, and whe… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last they happened to let fly their arrows both together, and when they fell to earth again the tail feather of a golden hen was found sticking in one. Who acts: toys, last, tail feather. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 132

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At last they happened to let fly their arrows both together, and when they fell to earth again the tail feather of a golden hen was found sticking in one.

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**Who acts:** toys, last, tail feather · **What happens:** happen, let, fly, fall, find, stick · **To what, where:** arrows, tail feather

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (toys, last, tail feather), 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:pg3282:22:132
# text = At last they happened to let fly their arrows both together, and when they fell to earth again the tail feather of a golden hen was found sticking in one.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	both	both	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	_
29	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	xcomp	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | toys *= toy* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | to-infinitive | toys *= toy* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fly** | infinitive | toys *= toy* *not said here* | toys's arrows |  |  |  | together *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location arrow=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | past | last |  |  |  |  | to earth | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | past · passive |  | the tail feather of a golden hen |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 6 | **stick** | gerund | the tail feather of a golden hen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in one | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in one=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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