The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 60

The youth looked at her more closely, and saw that her skin was smooth and fair, her blue eyes bright and sparkling, and her hair as golden as the sun. He fell in love with her on the spot, and kneeling at her feet, he implored her to become his wife.

Who acts: youth, skin, eye · What happens: look, see, be, sparkle, fall, kneel · To what, where: hair, sun., love, feet, girl, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, skin, eye), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	obl
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 looked	advmod
7	closely	closely	ADV	_	6 more	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 saw	cc
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 smooth	mark
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 skin	nmod:poss
13	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 smooth	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 smooth	cop
15	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 saw	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fair	cc
17	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 smooth	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bright	punct
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eyes	nmod:poss
20	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 eyes	amod
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 bright	nsubj
22	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 smooth	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sparkling	cc
24	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 bright	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hair	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hair	cc
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hair	nmod:poss
28	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obl
29	as	as	ADP	_	30 golden	case
30	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hair	amod
31	as	as	ADP	_	33 sun.	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sun.	det
33	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 golden	obl
34	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 fell	nsubj
35	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sun.	acl:relcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 love	case
37	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fell	obl
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 her	case
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 fell	obl
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 spot	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 spot	det
42	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fell	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 kneeling	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 kneeling	cc
45	kneeling	kneel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 saw	advcl
46	at	at	ADP	_	48 feet	case
47	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 feet	nmod:poss
48	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 kneeling	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 implored	punct
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 implored	nsubj
51	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
52	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 implored	obj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 become	mark
54	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 implored	advcl
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 wife	nmod:poss
56	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 become	xcomp
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	the youth				at girl	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
2	see	past	the youth not said here	girl's hair				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	girl's skin				smooth property	tree rules
4	be		girl's skin not said here					tree rules
5	sparkle	gerund	girl's skin not said here					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fall	past	eye	the sun. not said here		love	with girl; on the spot	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient sun.=Result
7	kneel	gerund	the youth not said here			girl's feet		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location
8	implore	past	eye		girl			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
9	become	to-infinitive	eye not said here	eye's wife				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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