The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 131

Then he made himself a club and a bow, and some arrows which would fly further than anyone else’s arrows, because of the strength the good spirits had given him.

Who acts: boy, arrows · What happens: make, fly, give · To what, where: boy, strength

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, arrows), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 made	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 made	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 club	det
6	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bow	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bow	det
9	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 club	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 arrows	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 arrows	cc
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 arrows	det
13	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 fly	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 fly	aux
16	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 arrows	acl:relcl
17	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 fly	advmod
18	than	than	ADP	_	22 arrows	case
19	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 arrows	nmod:poss
20	else	else	ADV	_	19 anyone	advmod
21	’s	's	PART	_	19 anyone	case
22	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 further	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 given	punct
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	32 given	mark
25	of	of	ADP	_	24 because	fixed
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 strength	det
27	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 given	nsubj:pass
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 spirits	det
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 spirits	amod
30	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 given	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 given	aux
32	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 made	parataxis
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 given	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	boy	boy	then	some arrows obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary club=Product
2	fly	would	some arrows			far property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give	past · perfect · passive		the strength			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=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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