English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 46
He danced with none but her and never took his eyes off her.
Who acts: son · What happens: dance, 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 (son), 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 danced | nsubj |
| 2 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 none | case |
| 4 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 2 danced | obl |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 her | cc |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 danced | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 took | advmod |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 danced | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | son | with none | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not take | past | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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