The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 30

It was not long before he was so much in love with the witch-maiden that he thought of nothing else, and only looked in her eyes, and whatever she wanted, that he gladly did.

Who acts: reason, Hunter, woman · What happens: be, think, look, want, do

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reason, Hunter, woman), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 love	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 love	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 love	advmod
5	before	before	ADP	_	11 love	case
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 love	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 love	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 love	amod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 love	case
11	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	with	with	SCONJ	_	16 maiden	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 maiden	det
14	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 maiden	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 witch	punct
16	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 love	acl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 thought	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 thought	nsubj
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 maiden	advcl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 nothing	case
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 thought	obl
22	else	else	ADV	_	21 nothing	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 looked	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 looked	cc
25	only	only	ADV	_	26 looked	advmod
26	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 thought	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 eyes	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 eyes	nmod:poss
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 looked	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 whatever	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 whatever	cc
32	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 looked	parataxis
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 wanted	nsubj
34	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 whatever	acl:relcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 did	punct
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 did	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 did	nsubj
38	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	39 did	advmod
39	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 wanted	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 love	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	reason	before much love	long property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	Hunter		of nothing	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	past	Hunter not said here		in woman's eyes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in eye=Theme
4	want	past	woman			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	do	past	Hunter		gladly property	vn act-114-1 «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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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