More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 26

He gazed on her beautiful form with admiration, and he takes her garter off, and buckles it on his own leg, and he buckles his on hers; he also takes her gold watch and pocket-handkerchief, and exchanges his for hers; after that he ventures to give her a kiss, when she very nearly opened her eyes.

Who acts: boy, Princess · What happens: gaze, take off, buckle, take, exchange, venture · To what, where: garter, space, gold watch, boy, kiss, Princess

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, Princess), 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	2 gazed	nsubj
2	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 form	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 form	nmod:poss
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 form	amod
6	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gazed	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 admiration	case
8	admiration	admiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 form	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 takes	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 takes	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 takes	nsubj
12	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 gazed	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 garter	nmod:poss
14	garter	garter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 takes	obj
15	off	off	ADP	_	12 takes	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 buckles	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 buckles	cc
18	buckles	buckle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 takes	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 buckles	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 leg	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 leg	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 leg	amod
23	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 buckles	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 buckles	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 buckles	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 buckles	nsubj
27	buckles	buckle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 takes	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 buckles	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 hers	case
30	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 buckles	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 takes	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 takes	nsubj
33	also	also	ADV	_	34 takes	advmod
34	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 gazed	parataxis
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 watch	nmod:poss
36	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 watch	compound
37	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 takes	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 handkerchief	cc
39	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 handkerchief	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 pocket	punct
41	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 watch	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 exchanges	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 exchanges	cc
44	exchanges	exchange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 takes	conj
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 exchanges	obj
46	for	for	ADP	_	47 hers	case
47	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 exchanges	obl
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 ventures	punct
49	after	after	SCONJ	_	52 ventures	mark
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 after	fixed
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 ventures	nsubj
52	ventures	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 gazed	conj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 give	mark
54	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 ventures	xcomp
55	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 give	iobj
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 kiss	det
57	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 give	obj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 opened	punct
59	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	63 opened	advmod
60	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 opened	nsubj
61	very	very	ADV	_	62 nearly	advmod
62	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	63 opened	advmod
63	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 give	advcl
64	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 eyes	nmod:poss
65	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 opened	obj
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gazed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	gaze	past	boy			on Princess's beautiful form with admiration	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on form=Theme
2	take off	present	boy	Princess's garter			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garter=Theme
3	buckle	present	boy not said here	garter		on boy's own leg	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient on leg=Co-Patient
4	buckle	present	boy	space		on Princess	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent his=Patient on her=Co-Patient
5	take	present	boy	Princess's gold watch and pocket handkerchief			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme
6	exchange	present	boy not said here	boy		for Princess	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent his=Theme for her=Co-Theme
7	venture	present	boy				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	give	to-infinitive	boy not said here	a kiss	Princess		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient kiss=Theme
9	open	past	Princess	Princess's eyes		nearly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
10	form		Princess			with admiration	nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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