The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 28

The young Sodno was standing ready for him, and as the Stalo passed the threshold struck him such a blow on the head that he rolled over with a crash and never stirred again.

Who acts: young Sodno, Stalo, threshold · What happens: stand, pass, strike, roll over, not stir · To what, where: Stalo, head

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 Sodno, Stalo, threshold), 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 Sodno	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Sodno	amod
3	Sodno	Sodno	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 standing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 standing	aux
5	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 standing	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ready	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 passed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 passed	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 passed	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Stalo	det
13	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 passed	nsubj
14	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 standing	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 threshold	det
16	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 struck	nsubj
17	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 passed	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 struck	obj
19	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	21 blow	det:predet
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 blow	det
21	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 struck	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 head	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 head	det
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 struck	obl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 rolled	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 rolled	nsubj
27	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 struck	advcl
28	over	over	ADV	_	27 rolled	advmod
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 crash	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 crash	det
31	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rolled	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 stirred	cc
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 stirred	advmod
34	stirred	stir	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 rolled	conj
35	again	again	ADV	_	34 stirred	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	the young Sodno				ready property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pass	past	the Stalo					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	strike	past	the threshold	Stalo	the head			tree rules
4	roll over	past	Stalo				with a crash; over property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with crash=Theme
5	not stir	participle	Stalo not said here			again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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