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title: When this shower of arrows was over I groaned with grief and pain, a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When this shower of arrows was over I groaned with grief and pain, and then, striving again to get loose, they discharged another flight of arrows larger than the first, and some of them tried to stab me with their spears; but by good luck I had on a leather jacket, which they could not pierce. Who 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 32

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When this shower of arrows was over I groaned with grief and pain, and then, striving again to get loose, they discharged another flight of arrows larger than the first, and some of them tried to stab me with their spears; but by good luck I had on a leather jacket, which they could not pierce.

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**Who acts:** shower, strings, some, I · **What happens:** be, strive, get, discharge, try, stab · **To what, where:** flight, me, leather jacket

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shower, strings, some, I), 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:pg503:43:32
# text = When this shower of arrows was over I groaned with grief and pain, and then, striving again to get loose, they discharged another flight of arrows larger than the first, and some of them tried to stab me with their spears; but by good luck I had on a leather jacket, which they could not pierce.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	shower	shower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	groaned	groan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	striving	strive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
22	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	discharged	discharge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	39	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	_
39	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	stab	stab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
48	by	by	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
51	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
53	on	on	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
58	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	62	obj	_	_
59	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
60	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	62	aux	_	_
61	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	62	advmod	_	_
62	pierce	pierce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this shower of arrows |  |  |  |  | with grief and pain; groan *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **strive** | gerund | this shower of arrows *not said here* |  |  |  | then; again |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | this shower of arrows *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loose *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **discharge** | past | strings *= string* | another flight of arrows |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme |
| 5 | **try** | past | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **stab** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | some *not said here* | me |  |  |  | with strings's spears | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Patient with spear=Instrument |
| 7 | **have** | past | I |  |  | a leather jacket |  | by good luck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **not** **pierce** | could | strings *= string* | a leather jacket |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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