The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 106

But Redmouth barked so furiously that the boy thought that perhaps his parents might have been killed under its branches, and stepping back, shot one of his arrows at the root of the tree.

Who acts: Redmouth, boy · What happens: bark, think, kill, step back, shoot · To what, where: parents, branches, one, root · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Redmouth, boy), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 barked	cc
2	Redmouth	Redmouth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 barked	nsubj
3	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 furiously	advmod
5	furiously	furiously	ADV	_	3 barked	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 thought	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 barked	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 killed	mark
11	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	13 parents	advmod
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 parents	nmod:poss
13	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 killed	nsubj:pass
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 killed	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 killed	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 killed	aux:pass
17	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 thought	ccomp
18	under	under	ADP	_	20 branches	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 branches	nmod:poss
20	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 killed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shot	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 shot	cc
23	stepping	step	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 shot	advcl
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 stepping	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stepping	punct
26	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 barked	conj
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 shot	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 arrows	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 arrows	nmod:poss
30	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 one	nmod
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 root	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 root	det
33	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shot	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 tree	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 tree	det
36	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 root	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 barked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bark	past	Redmouth			furiously property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past	the boy				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	kill	might · perfect · passive		Redmouth's parents	branch's branches		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	step back	gerund					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	shoot	past	Redmouth not said here	one of Redmouth's arrows	the root of the tree		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent one=Theme at root=Destination

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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