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title: A child was standing outside, shooting at a mark with his bow and ar… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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, bo
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 89

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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.

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

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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 (child, moment, 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:pg3282:6:89
# text = 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.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	shooting	shoot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	blues	blue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	greens	green	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	whites	white	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	all	all	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	frosted	frost	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
39	over	over	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
42	changing	change	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	xcomp	_	_
43	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	obj	_	_
44	into	into	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
50	down	down	ADP	RP	_	49	compound:prt	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	xcomp	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
60	up	up	ADP	RP	_	57	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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