The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 170

So he stood staring at her, and it was as if he were looking at the bright sun. When he had watched her for some time he said:

Who acts: pope, it · What happens: stand, stare, look, watch, say · To what, where: wife, time · 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 (pope, it), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 stood	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	staring	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stood	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 staring	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 looking	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 looking	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 looking	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 looking	aux
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 looking	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 looking	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 looking	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 looking	aux
15	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stood	advcl
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 sun.	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sun.	det
18	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sun.	amod
19	sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 looking	obl
20	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 watched	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 watched	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 watched	aux
23	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 looking	advcl
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 watched	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 time	case
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 watched	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	nsubj
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 time	acl:relcl
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	pope				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	stare	gerund	pope not said here			at wife	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
3	look	past · progressive	it		sunday		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	watch	past · perfect	pope	wife	time		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	pope	some time not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent time=Topic

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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