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title: He gazed on her beautiful form with admiration, and he takes her gar… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He gazed on her beautiful form with admiration, and he takes her garter off, and buckles it on his own leg, and he buckles his on hers; he also takes her gold watch and pocket-handkerchief, and exchanges his for hers; after that he ventures to give her a kiss, when she very nearly opened her eyes. W
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 26

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He gazed on her beautiful form with admiration, and he takes her garter off, and buckles it on his own leg, and he buckles his on hers; he also takes her gold watch and pocket-handkerchief, and exchanges his for hers; after that he ventures to give her a kiss, when she very nearly opened her eyes.

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**Who acts:** boy, Princess · **What happens:** gaze, take off, buckle, take, exchange, venture · **To what, where:** garter, space, gold watch, boy, kiss, Princess

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, Princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:27:26
# text = He gazed on her beautiful form with admiration, and he takes her garter off, and buckles it on his own leg, and he buckles his on hers; he also takes her gold watch and pocket-handkerchief, and exchanges his for hers; after that he ventures to give her a kiss, when she very nearly opened her eyes.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	garter	garter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	buckles	buckle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	buckles	buckle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	also	also	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	exchanges	exchange	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
50	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	fixed	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	ventures	venture	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	xcomp	_	_
55	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	iobj	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
59	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	63	advmod	_	_
60	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
61	very	very	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
62	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
63	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	advcl	_	_
64	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	65	nmod:poss	_	_
65	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | on Princess's beautiful form with admiration | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on form=Theme |
| 2 | **take off** | present | boy | Princess's garter |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garter=Theme |
| 3 | **buckle** | present | boy *not said here* | garter |  |  |  | on boy's own leg | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient on leg=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **buckle** | present | boy | space |  |  |  | on Princess | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent his=Patient on her=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **take** | present | boy | Princess's gold watch and pocket handkerchief |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme |
| 6 | **exchange** | present | boy *not said here* | boy |  |  |  | for Princess | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent his=Theme for her=Co-Theme |
| 7 | **venture** | present | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **give** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | a kiss | Princess |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient kiss=Theme |
| 9 | **open** | past | Princess | Princess's eyes |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme |
| 10 | **form** |  | Princess |  |  |  |  | with admiration | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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