The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 39

He flew into a dreadful rage when he saw them, and screamed out, ‘Oh, you fools! the river and bridge were they!

Who acts: Magician, you, fools · What happens: fly, see, scream out, fool, be · To what, where: dreadful rage, paths

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Magician, you, fools), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 rage	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rage	det
5	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rage	amod
6	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 saw	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 screamed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 screamed	cc
13	screamed	scream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 flew	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 screamed	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fools	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 fools	punct
17	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	20 fools	discourse
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Oh	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 fools	nsubj
20	fools	fool	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 they	nsubj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 river	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 river	det
23	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fools	appos
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bridge	cc
25	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 river	conj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 they	cop
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	ccomp
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fly	past	Magician		into a dreadful rage result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into rage=Result
2	see	past	Magician	paths = path		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	scream out speech: express	participle	Magician not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fool		you			tree rules
5	is a	past	fools	paths = path		tree rules

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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