English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 50

But after a time he looked upon the youngest, with her cherry cheeks and golden hair, and his love grew towards her till he cared no longer for the eldest one.

Who acts: Sir, love · What happens: look, grow, care, love

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, love), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 looked	cc
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looked	nsubj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 youngest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 youngest	det
9	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 looked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cheeks	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 cheeks	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 cheeks	nmod:poss
13	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cheeks	compound
14	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 looked	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hair	cc
16	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hair	amod
17	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cheeks	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 grew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 grew	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 love	nmod:poss
21	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 grew	nsubj
22	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 looked	conj
23	towards	towards	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 grew	obl
25	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 cared	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cared	nsubj
27	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 grew	advcl
28	no	no	ADV	_	29 longer	advmod
29	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 cared	advmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 one	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 one	det
32	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 one	amod
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 longer	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	Sir	time	upon the youngest; with William's cherry cheeks and golden hair	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon young=Theme
2	grow	past	Sir's love		towards William	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	care	past	Sir		long property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	love		Sir			nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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