The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 115

The Stalo grew red and angry when he heard these words, just as Andras meant him to do.

Who acts: Stalo, Andras · What happens: grow, hear, mean, do · To what, where: words, Stalo

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stalo, Andras), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Stalo	det
2	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 angry	cc
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 red	conj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 heard	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	advcl
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 words	det
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 heard	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 meant	punct
13	just	just	ADV	_	16 meant	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 meant	mark
15	Andras	Andras	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 meant	nsubj
16	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 meant	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 do	mark
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 meant	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the Stalo		red property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	past	Stalo	this words		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
3	mean	past	Andras	Stalo		tree rules
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Andras not said here			vn act-114-1 «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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