The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 70

Instead of answering he began to laugh, and I flew into such a rage that I drew a pistol and fired at him; but the bullet rebounded from his breast and struck my horse in the forehead.

Who acts: stranger, I, bullet · What happens: answer, begin, laugh, fly, draw, fire · To what, where: rage, breast, horse, forehead

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, I, bullet), 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	Instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	3 answering	mark
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Instead	fixed
3	answering	answer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 began	advcl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 laugh	mark
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flew	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 flew	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 flew	nsubj
11	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	conj
12	into	into	ADP	_	15 rage	case
13	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 rage	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 rage	det
15	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flew	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 drew	obj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 drew	nsubj
18	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 rage	acl:relcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 pistol	det
20	pistol	pistol	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drew	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fired	cc
22	fired	fire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 drew	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fired	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 rebounded	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 rebounded	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bullet	det
28	bullet	bullet	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rebounded	nsubj
29	rebounded	rebound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	parataxis
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 breast	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 breast	nmod:poss
32	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rebounded	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 struck	cc
34	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 rebounded	conj
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 horse	nmod:poss
36	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 struck	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 forehead	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 forehead	det
39	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 struck	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	gerund	stranger not said here				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	stranger				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	laugh	to-infinitive	stranger not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fly	past	I			into such rage result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into rage=Result
5	draw	past	I	such rage			vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary pistol=Result
6	fire	participle	I not said here			at stranger	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at he=Destination
7	rebound	past	the bullet		stranger's breast		tree rules
8	strike	past	the bullet not said here	my horse	the forehead		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent horse=Instrument

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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