English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 40
There she was again, gay and ga', and the young master he never took his eyes off her.”
Who acts: dance, young master · What happens: be, not take · To what, where: 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 (dance, young master), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 was | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 was | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gay | punct |
| 6 | gay | gay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ga | cc |
| 8 | ga | ga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gay | conj |
| 9 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 6 gay | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 master | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 master | amod |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | nsubj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 took | advmod |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 was | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 took | obj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | dance | there | again | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not take | past | the young master | master'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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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