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title: He too was standing there hanging his head, and looking so downcast… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He too was standing there hanging his head, and looking so downcast that she fell a-weeping over him. Who acts: bull, daughter. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 24

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He too was standing there hanging his head, and looking so downcast that she fell a-weeping over him.

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**Who acts:** bull, daughter · **What happens:** stand, hang, look, fall · **To what, where:** head, downcast, weeping

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:29:24
# text = He too was standing there hanging his head, and looking so downcast that she fell a-weeping over him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	downcast	downcast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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