--- title: As soon as they got into order they divided into two parties, discha… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As soon as they got into order they divided into two parties, discharged blunt arrows, drew their swords, fled and pursued, and, in short, showed the best military discipline I ever beheld. Who acts: sticks, two parties, I. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III, with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/45/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Chapter III](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/45/) / 10 # The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 10 As soon as they got into order they divided into two parties, discharged blunt arrows, drew their swords, fled and pursued, and, in short, showed the best military discipline I ever beheld. **Who acts:** sticks, two parties, I · **What happens:** get, divide, discharge, draw, flee, pursue · **To what, where:** order, two parties, blunt arrows, swords, best military discipline This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sticks, two parties, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:45:10 # text = As soon as they got into order they divided into two parties, discharged blunt arrows, drew their swords, fled and pursued, and, in short, showed the best military discipline I ever beheld. 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 divided divide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 parties party NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 discharged discharge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 15 blunt blunt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 arrows arrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 swords sword NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 fled flee VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 pursued pursue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 amod _ _ 34 military military ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 discipline discipline NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 38 advmod _ _ 38 beheld behold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | sticks *= stick* | | | order | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into order=Destination | | 2 | **divide** | past | sticks *= stick* | | | two parties | | soon *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **discharge** | participle | two parties *not said here* | blunt arrows | | | | | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme | | 4 | **draw** | past | sticks *= stick* *not said here* | sticks's swords | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | | 5 | **flee** | past | sticks *= stick* *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **pursue** | past | sticks *= stick* *not said here* | | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **show** | past | sticks *= stick* *not said here* | the best military discipline | | | | in short | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent discipline=Patient in short=Topic | | 8 | **behold** | past | I | the best military discipline *not said here* | | | ever | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer discipline=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/45/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/45/11/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/45/)