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title: The young Sodno was standing ready for him, and as the Stalo passed… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, with its dep
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 28

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg3027:36:28
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Sodno	Sodno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	21	det:predet	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
28	over	over	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	stirred	stir	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
35	again	again	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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 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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