The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 58

Furiously did the enraged gnome fling two great clouds together, and hurl a thunderbolt after the flying maiden, splintering the rocky barriers which had stood a thousand years.

What happens: do, enrage, hurl, fly, splinter, stand · To what, where: enraged gnome fling, thunderbolt, rocky barriers

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Furiously	furiously	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fling	det
4	enraged	enrage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fling	amod
5	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fling	compound
6	fling	fling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 clouds	nummod
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 clouds	amod
9	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fling	nmod
10	together	together	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hurl	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hurl	cc
13	hurl	hurl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 did	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 thunderbolt	det
15	thunderbolt	thunderbolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hurl	obj
16	after	after	SCONJ	_	19 maiden	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 maiden	det
18	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 maiden	amod
19	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hurl	csubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 splintering	punct
21	splintering	splinter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 maiden	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 barriers	det
23	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 barriers	amod
24	barriers	barrier	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 splintering	obj
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 stood	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 stood	aux
27	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 barriers	acl:relcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 thousand	det
29	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 years	nummod
30	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 stood	obl:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the enraged gnome fling two great clouds		furiously, together property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fling=Eventuality
2	enrage	participle				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	hurl	infinitive	a thunderbolt			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thunderbolt=Theme
4	fly	gerund				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	splinter	gerund	the rocky barriers			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barrier=Patient
6	stand	past · perfect · passive	the rocky barriers	year		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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