English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 37
The master's son had been reckoning on seeing her, and he danced with no one else, and never took his eyes off her.
Who acts: son · What happens: reckon, see, dance, not take · To what, where: dance, eyes
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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:pg7439:568): 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 master | det |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 master | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reckoning | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reckoning | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 reckoning | aux |
| 7 | reckoning | reckon | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 9 seeing | mark |
| 9 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 reckoning | advcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seeing | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 danced | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 danced | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 danced | nsubj |
| 14 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reckoning | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 danced | obl |
| 18 | else | else | ADV | _ | 17 one | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 took | cc |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 took | advmod |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reckoning | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 took | obj |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 took | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reckoning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past · perfect · progressive | the master's son | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | gerund | the master's son not said here | dance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | dance | past | son | with no one | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not take | past | the master's son not said here | son's eyes | off dance | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme off she=Initial_Location |
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: 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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