Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 50
He stood there, and could not take his eyes off her.
Who acts: heart · What happens: stand, not take · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 stood | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 take | cc |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 take | advmod |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | parataxis |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 take | obj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 take | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | heart | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not take | could | heart's eyes | off Lady | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme off she=Initial_Location |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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