The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 2

At this reply both brothers were beside themselves with anger, and fell upon the boy, beating him, and calling him names, till they were quite tired.

Who acts: brothers, anger · What happens: be, fall, beat, call · To what, where: reply, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (brothers, anger), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 reply	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 reply	det
3	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 anger	obl
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 brothers	det
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 anger	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 anger	cop
7	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 themselves	case
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 were	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 anger	case
10	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fell	cc
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 anger	acl:relcl
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 boy	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boy	det
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 beating	punct
18	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 fell	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 beating	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 calling	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 calling	cc
22	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 beating	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 calling	obj
24	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 calling	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tired	punct
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 tired	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tired	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 tired	cop
29	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 tired	advmod
30	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 calling	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 anger	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	both brothers		this reply	with anger	tree rules
2	fall	past	anger not said here			upon the boy	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon boy=Location
3	beat	gerund	anger not said here	boy			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
4	call	gerund	anger not said here	boy			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme name=Result
5	is	past	brothers = brother			tired property	tree rules

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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