The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 85
And as they dashed past the stone where Ciccu was waiting for them, he swung himself up and held her round the waist.
Who acts: eyes, Ciccu · What happens: dash, wait, swing up, hold · To what, where: stone, Ciccu, princess
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 (eyes, Ciccu), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 swung | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 dashed | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dashed | nsubj |
| 4 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 swung | advcl |
| 5 | past | past | ADP | _ | 7 stone | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stone | det |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dashed | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 waiting | advmod |
| 9 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 waiting | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 waiting | aux |
| 11 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 stone | acl:relcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 waiting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dashed | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 swung | nsubj |
| 16 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 swung | obj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 swung | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 held | cc |
| 20 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 swung | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 held | obj |
| 22 | round | round | ADP | _ | 24 waist | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 waist | det |
| 24 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 held | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 swung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dash | past | eyes = eye | the stone | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past stone=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | wait | past · progressive | Ciccu | for eyes = eye | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | swing up | past | Ciccu | Ciccu | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold | past | Ciccu not said here | princess | round the waist | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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