The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 17

The young Stalo did as he was bid, and left the house; but no sooner was he out of the door than he was stabbed to the heart by one of the Sodnos, and fell without a groan.

Who acts: young Stalo, Stalo, door · What happens: do, bid, leave, be, stab, fall · To what, where: Stalo, house, door

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 (young Stalo, Stalo, door), 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	3 Stalo	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Stalo	amod
3	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 bid	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bid	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bid	aux:pass
8	bid	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 did	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 left	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 left	cc
11	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 left	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 door	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 door	cc
16	no	no	ADV	_	17 sooner	advmod
17	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 door	advmod
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 door	cop
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 door	nsubj
20	out	out	ADP	_	23 door	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 door	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 door	det
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl:unmarked
24	than	than	SCONJ	_	27 stabbed	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stabbed	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 stabbed	aux:pass
27	stabbed	stab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 door	acl
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 heart	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 heart	det
30	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stabbed	obl
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 one	case
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 stabbed	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 Sodnos	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Sodnos	det
35	Sodnos	Sodnos	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 one	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 fell	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 fell	cc
38	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
39	without	without	ADP	_	41 groan	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 groan	det
41	groan	groan	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fell	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	the young Stalo				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bid	past · passive		Stalo			tree rules
3	leave	past	the young Stalo not said here	the house			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
4	is	past	Stalo		the door	soon property	tree rules
5	stab	past · passive	the door not said here	Stalo		to the heart result; by one of the Sodnos	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to heart=Result
6	fall	past	the young Stalo not said here			without a groan	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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