The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 89

A child was standing outside, shooting at a mark with his bow and arrows, but the moment he saw the ball, which was made of glass whose blues and greens and whites, all frosted over, kept changing one into the other, he flung down his bow, and stooped to pick the ball up.

Who acts: child, moment, boy · What happens: stand, shoot, see, make, frost over, keep · To what, where: mark, ball, blues, one, other, bow

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 (child, moment, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 standing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 standing	aux
4	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	outside	outside	ADV	_	4 standing	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 shooting	punct
7	shooting	shoot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 standing	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 mark	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mark	det
10	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shooting	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 bow	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bow	nmod:poss
13	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shooting	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 arrows	cc
15	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bow	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 saw	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 moment	det
19	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	nsubj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 standing	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ball	det
23	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 made	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 made	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 made	aux:pass
27	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 ball	acl:relcl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 glass	case
29	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 made	obj
30	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	31 blues	nmod:poss
31	blues	blue	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 glass	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 greens	cc
33	greens	green	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 blues	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 whites	cc
35	whites	white	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 blues	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 frosted	punct
37	all	all	ADV	_	38 frosted	advmod
38	frosted	frost	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 blues	acl
39	over	over	ADV	_	38 frosted	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 kept	punct
41	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 saw	conj
42	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 kept	xcomp
43	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 changing	obj
44	into	into	ADP	_	46 other	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 other	det
46	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 changing	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 flung	punct
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 flung	nsubj
49	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 saw	conj
50	down	down	ADP	_	49 flung	compound:prt
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 bow	nmod:poss
52	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 flung	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 stooped	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 stooped	cc
55	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 saw	conj
56	to	to	PART	_	57 pick	mark
57	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 stooped	xcomp
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 ball	det
59	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 pick	obj
60	up	up	ADP	_	57 pick	compound:prt
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	a child			outside property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shoot	gerund	a child not said here		a mark	with boy's bow and arrows	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at mark=Destination
3	see	past	the moment	the ball			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ball=Stimulus
4	make	past · passive		the ball			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary glass=Product
5	frost over	participle		glass's blues and greens and whites not said here		all, over property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	keep	past	the moment not said here				tree rules
7	change	gerund	the moment not said here	one		into the other result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent one=Patient into other=Result
8	fling down	past	boy	boy's bow			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme
9	stoop	past	the moment not said here				tree rules
10	pick up	to-infinitive	the moment not said here	the ball			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Topic

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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