The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 61
He positively could not tear his eyes away from it, and exclaimed aloud that never, never had he seen anything so lovely and so graceful.
Who acts: message · What happens: not tear, not exclaim, not have, see · To what, where: eyes, anything
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (message), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tear | nsubj |
| 2 | positively | positively | ADV | _ | 5 tear | advmod |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 tear | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 tear | advmod |
| 5 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tear | obj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 tear | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 away | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 exclaimed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 exclaimed | cc |
| 13 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tear | advcl |
| 14 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 13 exclaimed | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | ADV | _ | 16 never | advmod |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 exclaimed | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 had | advmod |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tear | parataxis |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seen | nsubj |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 had | ccomp |
| 22 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 seen | obj |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 lovely | advmod |
| 24 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 anything | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 graceful | cc |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 graceful | advmod |
| 27 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lovely | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tear | could | message | message's eyes | away, positively property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | not exclaim speech: express | past | message not said here | aloud property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | see | participle | message | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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