The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 97

So he took it off, and there he stood before her, the handsomest young man she had ever seen in all her life, with short curly yellow hair, and blue eyes, and a laughing face.

Who acts: boy, girl · What happens: take off, stand, see, laugh · To what, where: Head, handsomest young man, life

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, girl), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	3 took	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stood	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stood	cc
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 stood	expl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stood	nsubj
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stood	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 man	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
15	handsomest	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 man	amod
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obl
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seen	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seen	aux
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 seen	advmod
21	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 man	acl:relcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 life	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 life	det:predet
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 life	nmod:poss
25	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seen	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hair	punct
27	with	with	ADP	_	31 hair	case
28	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hair	amod
29	curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hair	amod
30	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hair	amod
31	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 eyes	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 eyes	cc
34	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 eyes	amod
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 face	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 face	cc
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 face	det
39	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 face	amod
40	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	parataxis
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	past	boy	Head			blue eyes obl	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	stand	past	boy	the handsomest young man	there	before girl	with short curly yellow hair	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location
3	see	past · perfect	girl	the handsomest young man not said here	girl's life	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4	laugh	gerund						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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