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The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 70

The poor lady, turning about to him, and looking at him with dying eyes, desired him to afford her one little moment to recollect herself.

Who acts: poor lady · What happens: turn, look, die, desire, afford, recollect · To what, where: beard, lady

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor lady), 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

detamodnsubjpunctaclcasecaseoblpunctccconjcaseoblcaseamodoblpunctobjmarkxcompobjnummodamodobl:unmarkedmarkadvclobjpunctrootTheDETpoorADJladyNOUN,PUNCTturningVERBaboutADPtoADPhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJlookingVERBatADPhimPRONwithADPdyingVERBeyesNOUN,PUNCTdesiredVERBhimPRONtoPARTaffordVERBherPRONoneNUMlittleADJmomentNOUNtoPARTrecollectVERBherselfPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 ladydet
2poorpoorADJDegree=Pos3 ladyamod
3ladyladyNOUNNumber=Sing18 desirednsubj
4,,PUNCT_5 turningpunct
5turningturnVERBVerbForm=Ger3 ladyacl
6aboutaboutADP_8 himcase
7totoADP_8 himcase
8himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 turningobl
9,,PUNCT_11 lookingpunct
10andandCCONJ_11 lookingcc
11lookinglookVERBVerbForm=Ger5 turningconj
12atatADP_13 himcase
13himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 lookingobl
14withwithADP_16 eyescase
15dyingdieVERBVerbForm=Ger16 eyesamod
16eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur11 lookingobl
17,,PUNCT_3 ladypunct
18desireddesireVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
19himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 desiredobj
20totoPART_21 affordmark
21affordaffordVERBVerbForm=Inf18 desiredxcomp
22hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 affordobj
23oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card25 momentnummod
24littlelittleADJDegree=Pos25 momentamod
25momentmomentNOUNNumber=Sing21 affordobl:unmarked
26totoPART_27 recollectmark
27recollectrecollectVERBVerbForm=Inf21 affordadvcl
28herselfherselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes27 recollectobj
29..PUNCT_18 desiredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1turngerundthe poor lady not said hereabout beardvn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme about he=Trajectory
2lookgerundthe poor lady not said hereat beard; with dying eyesvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
3diegerundvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4desirepastthe poor ladybeardtree rules
5afford not said to happento-infinitivethe poor lady not said hereladymomenttree rules
6recollectto-infinitivethe poor lady not said hereladyvn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent herself=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: «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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