The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 23

Meanwhile the figure was always drawing nearer, nearer; but, with a violent effort, Alonzo shook off his stupor, and taking aim at her shoulder he pulled the trigger.

Who acts: figure, Alonzo, manner · What happens: draw, shake off, take, pull · To what, where: stupor, aim, shoulder, trigger

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (figure, Alonzo, manner), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	6 drawing	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 figure	det
3	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drawing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 drawing	aux
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 drawing	advmod
6	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 drawing	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nearer	punct
9	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 nearer	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 shook	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 shook	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 but	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 effort	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 effort	det
15	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 effort	amod
16	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shook	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 effort	punct
18	Alonzo	Alonzo	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 shook	nsubj
19	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 drawing	conj
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 shook	compound:prt
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 stupor	nmod:poss
22	stupor	stupor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shook	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 taking	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 taking	cc
25	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 drawing	advcl
26	aim	aim	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 taking	obj
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 shoulder	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 shoulder	nmod:poss
29	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 taking	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 pulled	nsubj
31	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 shoulder	acl:relcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 trigger	det
33	trigger	trigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pulled	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 drawing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past · progressive	the figure			always, meanwhile, near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shake off	past	Alonzo	manner's stupor		with a violent effort	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent stupor=Patient with effort=Co-Patient
3	take	gerund	the figure not said here	aim	Alonzo's shoulder		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent aim=Theme at shoulder=Asset
4	pull	past	manner	the trigger			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trigger=Theme

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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