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title: Meanwhile the enemy discharged several thousand arrows, many of whic… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile the enemy discharged several thousand arrows, many of which stuck in my hands and face. Who acts: enemy. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 12

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Meanwhile the enemy discharged several thousand arrows, many of which stuck in my hands and face.

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**Who acts:** enemy · **What happens:** discharge · **To what, where:** thousand arrows

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enemy), 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:pg503:46:12
# text = Meanwhile the enemy discharged several thousand arrows, many of which stuck in my hands and face.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	discharged	discharge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discharge** | participle | the enemy *not said here* | thousand arrows |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme |

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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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