The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 18

The boy was very angry at his silence, and aiming one of his arrows at the bottom of the mountain, shot straight through it.

Who acts: boy · What happens: be, aim, shot, silence · To what, where: silence, one, bottom, mountain

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 angry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 angry	advmod
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 silence	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 silence	nmod:poss
8	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 angry	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 aiming	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 aiming	cc
11	aiming	aim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 angry	parataxis
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 aiming	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 arrows	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 arrows	nmod:poss
15	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 bottom	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bottom	det
18	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 aiming	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 mountain	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mountain	det
21	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bottom	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 shot	punct
23	shot	shot	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 aiming	parataxis
24	straight	straight	ADV	_	26 it	advmod
25	through	through	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 shot	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the boy		boy's silence	angry property	tree rules
2	aim	gerund		one of boy's arrows	the bottom of the mountain		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot one=Theme
3	shot	infinitive			mountain		tree rules
4	silence		boy				nom silence «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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