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title: When I had got out of danger I stopped awhile to pick out the arrows… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When I had got out of danger I stopped awhile to pick out the arrows that stuck in my hands and face, and rubbed on some of the same ointment that was given me at my arrival. Who acts: I, arrows, my. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 20

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When I had got out of danger I stopped awhile to pick out the arrows that stuck in my hands and face, and rubbed on some of the same ointment that was given me at my arrival.

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**Who acts:** I, arrows, my · **What happens:** get out, stop, pick out, stick, rub, give · **To what, where:** danger, arrows, hands, same ointment, me, arrival

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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 (I, arrows, my), 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:pg503:46:20
# text = When I had got out of danger I stopped awhile to pick out the arrows that stuck in my hands and face, and rubbed on some of the same ointment that was given me at my arrival.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	awhile	awhile	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	iobj	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get out** | past · perfect | I | danger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stop** | past | I |  |  |  |  | awhile *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **pick out** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the arrows |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Patient |
| 4 | **stick** | past | the arrows |  |  | my hands and face |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in hand=Destination |
| 5 | **rub** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  | the same ointment |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on ointment=Destination |
| 6 | **give** | past · passive |  | the same ointment | me | my arrival |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient i=Theme at arrival=Asset |
| 7 | **arrive** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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