The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 57
The youth could not turn away his eyes from the maiden, for he had never in his life seen a woman so beautiful.
Who acts: youth, foot · What happens: not turn away, not see · To what, where: eyes, maiden, woman, life
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, foot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:209): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 | 5 turn | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 turn | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 turn | advmod |
| 5 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADP | _ | 5 turn | compound:prt |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 turn | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 maiden | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 maiden | det |
| 11 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seen | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 seen | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seen | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 seen | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 life | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 life | nmod:poss |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seen | obl |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 turn | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 woman | det |
| 22 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seen | obj |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 beautiful | advmod |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 woman | amod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not turn away | could | the youth | foot's eyes | the maiden | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Theme from maiden=Source | |||
| 2 | not see | past · perfect | foot | a woman | foot's life | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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