The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 102

Ciccu, who was standing by expecting something of the sort, bowed his head when he heard her words, and went straight to the horse.

Who acts: Ciccu, wife · What happens: stand, expect, bow, hear, go, word · To what, where: something, head, words

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciccu, wife), 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	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 bowed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 standing	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	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	1 Ciccu	acl
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 expecting	mark
7	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 standing	advcl
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 expecting	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 sort	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sort	det
11	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 something	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ciccu	punct
13	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bowed	obj
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 heard	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heard	nsubj
18	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bowed	advcl
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 words	nmod:poss
20	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 heard	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bowed	conj
24	straight	straight	ADV	_	27 horse	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 horse	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 horse	det
27	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 bowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	Ciccu			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	expect	gerund	Ciccu not said here	something		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
3	bow	past	Ciccu	Ciccu's head		vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic
4	hear	past	Ciccu	wife's words		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
5	go	past	Ciccu not said here		to the horse	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to horse=Initial_Location
6	word		wife			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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