Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 37
She looked so beautiful that he could not take his eyes off her, so he stooped down and gave her a kiss.
Who acts: Briar, man · What happens: look, not take, stoop down, give · To what, where: eyes, kiss, Briar
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Briar, man), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 beautiful | advmod |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | xcomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 take | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 take | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 take | advmod |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beautiful | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 take | obj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 take | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stooped | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 stooped | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stooped | nsubj |
| 17 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 stooped | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gave | cc |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stooped | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gave | iobj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 kiss | det |
| 23 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Briar | beautiful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not take | could | man | man's eyes | off Briar | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme off she=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | stoop down | past | man | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | give | past | man not said here | a kiss | Briar | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient kiss=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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