--- title: Here's a poisoned arrow, which I'll shoot at you and knock you down!" — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Here's a poisoned arrow, which I'll shoot at you and knock you down!" Who acts: poisoned arrow. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/102/) [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/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/) / 102 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 102 Here's a poisoned arrow, which I'll shoot at you and knock you down!" **Who acts:** poisoned arrow · **What happens:** be, poison, shoot, knock down · **To what, where:** you This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poisoned arrow), 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:pg7128:26:102 # text = Here's a poisoned arrow, which I'll shoot at you and knock you down!" 1 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 poisoned poison VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 arrow arrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 shoot shoot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 knock knock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 down down ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a poisoned arrow | | | | | here *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **poison** | participle | | | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **shoot** | future | a poisoned arrow | | | | | at you | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at you=Destination | | 4 | **knock down** | infinitive | a poisoned arrow *not said here* | you | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent you=Patient | 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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/101/) - next →: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/103/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/)