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title: But Redmouth barked so furiously that the boy thought that perhaps h… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Redmouth barked so furiously that the boy thought that perhaps his parents might have been killed under its branches, and stepping back, shot one of his arrows at the root of the tree. Who acts: Redmouth, boy. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, wi
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 106

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But Redmouth barked so furiously that the boy thought that perhaps his parents might have been killed under its branches, and stepping back, shot one of his arrows at the root of the tree.

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**Who acts:** Redmouth, boy · **What happens:** bark, think, kill, step back, shoot · **To what, where:** parents, branches, one, root · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Redmouth, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:14:106
# text = But Redmouth barked so furiously that the boy thought that perhaps his parents might have been killed under its branches, and stepping back, shot one of his arrows at the root of the tree.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Redmouth	Redmouth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	barked	bark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	furiously	furiously	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
11	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	stepping	step	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
26	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bark** | past | Redmouth |  |  |  |  | furiously *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **kill** | might · perfect · passive |  | Redmouth's parents |  | branch's branches |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **step back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **shoot** | past | Redmouth *not said here* | one of Redmouth's arrows |  | the root of the tree |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent one=Theme at root=Destination |

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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.

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**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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