The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 83

Then the stranger, being angry at what he thought very rude behaviour, picked up a big stone and threw it at Mrs. Goldsmith, crying:

Who acts: stranger · What happens: be, think, pick up, throw, cry · To what, where: stranger, rude behaviour, stone, Mrs.

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stranger	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stranger	det
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 picked	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 angry	punct
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 angry	cop
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stranger	amod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 what	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 angry	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thought	nsubj
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 what	acl:relcl
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 rude	advmod
12	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 behaviour	amod
13	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thought	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 picked	punct
15	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 picked	compound:prt
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 stone	det
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stone	amod
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 picked	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 threw	cc
21	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 picked	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 threw	obj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 Mrs.	case
24	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 threw	obl
25	Goldsmith	Goldsmith	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Mrs.	flat
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 crying	punct
27	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 threw	advcl
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	gerund			the stranger	angry property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	stranger	rude behaviour			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot behaviour=Theme
3	pick up	participle · passive		the stranger			tree rules
4	throw	past		stone	Mrs.		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at mrs.=Destination
5	cry speech: express	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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