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title: Then he made himself a club and a bow, and some arrows which would f… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 131

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg3282:6:131
# text = 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.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	else	else	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
22	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
24	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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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