The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 139

He stood looking at her magnificence, and when he had watched her for some time, said:

Who acts: emperor · What happens: stand, look, watch, say · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor), 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	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stood	xcomp
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 magnificence	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 magnificence	nmod:poss
6	magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looking	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 watched	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 watched	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 watched	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 watched	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 watched	aux
12	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 stood	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 watched	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 time	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 watched	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	emperor				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	look	gerund	emperor not said here			at wife's magnificence	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at magnificence=Theme
3	watch	past · perfect	emperor	wife	time		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 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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