The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 20

There was great excitement through all the village, and on the top of the hill the people stood holding their sides with laughing, as they watched the Star Gazer trudging bravely along the valley with his bundle at the end of his stick.

Who acts: great excitement, people, Star Gazer · What happens: be, stand, hold, laugh, watch, trudge · To what, where: village, top, sides, Star Gazer, end

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great excitement, people, Star Gazer), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 excitement	amod
4	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	through	through	ADP	_	8 village	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 village	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 village	det
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stood	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stood	cc
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 top	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 top	det
13	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stood	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 hill	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hill	det
16	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 top	nmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 people	det
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stood	nsubj
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
20	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 stood	xcomp
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 sides	nmod:poss
22	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 holding	obj
23	with	with	SCONJ	_	24 laughing	mark
24	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 holding	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 watched	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 watched	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 watched	nsubj
28	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stood	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Gazer	det
30	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Gazer	compound
31	Gazer	gazer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 watched	obj
32	trudging	trudge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 watched	xcomp
33	bravely	bravely	ADV	_	32 trudging	advmod
34	along	along	ADP	_	36 valley	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 valley	det
36	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 trudging	obl
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 bundle	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 bundle	nmod:poss
39	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 trudging	obl
40	at	at	ADP	_	42 end	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 end	det
42	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 trudging	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 stick	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 stick	nmod:poss
45	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 end	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	great excitement		all village; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through village=Location
2	stand	past	the people		the top of the hill			vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	hold	gerund	the people not said here	people's sides				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme
4	laugh	gerund	the people not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	watch	past	people	the Star Gazer				tree rules
6	trudge	gerund	the Star Gazer not said here			at the end of excitement's stick	along the valley; with excitement's bundle; bravely property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along valley=Trajectory

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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