The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 24
He too was standing there hanging his head, and looking so downcast that she fell a-weeping over him.
Who acts: bull, daughter · What happens: stand, hang, look, fall · To what, where: head, downcast, weeping
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bull, daughter), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 standing | nsubj |
| 2 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 standing | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 standing | aux |
| 4 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 standing | advmod |
| 6 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 standing | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hanging | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looking | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looking | cc |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 standing | conj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 looking | advmod |
| 13 | downcast | downcast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looking | obj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 fell | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 looking | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 weeping | det |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 a | punct |
| 19 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | obj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fell | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | bull | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hang | gerund | bull not said here | bull's head | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | bull not said here | downcast | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme downcast=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | daughter | a weeping | over bull | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient weeping=Result |
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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