The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 81

Ciccu seated himself on the stone, and the horse went on to the courtyard of the castle, where he began to trot round in a graceful and elegant manner.

Who acts: Ciccu, horse · What happens: seat, go on, begin, trot · To what, where: Ciccu, stone, graceful manner

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, horse), 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	2 seated	nsubj
2	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 seated	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 stone	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stone	det
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seated	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seated	conj
12	on	on	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 courtyard	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 courtyard	det
15	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 castle	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 castle	det
18	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 courtyard	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 began	punct
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 began	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 began	nsubj
22	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 castle	acl:relcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 trot	mark
24	trot	trot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 began	xcomp
25	round	round	ADV	_	24 trot	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	31 manner	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 manner	det
28	graceful	graceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 manner	amod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 elegant	cc
30	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 graceful	conj
31	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 trot	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seat	past	Ciccu	Ciccu	the stone		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value
2	go on	past	the horse			to the courtyard of the castle	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	Ciccu				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	trot	to-infinitive	Ciccu not said here		a graceful manner	round property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=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 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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