--- title: So he took it off, and there he stood before her, the handsomest you… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So he took it off, and there he stood before her, the handsomest young man she had ever seen in all her life, with short curly yellow hair, and blue eyes, and a laughing face. Who acts: boy, girl. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, girl), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:27:97 # text = So he took it off, and there he stood before her, the handsomest young man she had ever seen in all her life, with short curly yellow hair, and blue eyes, and a laughing face. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 off off ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 10 expl _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 before before ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 handsomest handsome ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 amod _ _ 16 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 21 advmod _ _ 21 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 acl:relcl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 25 det:predet _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 29 curly curly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 amod _ _ 40 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take off** | past | boy | Head | | | | blue eyes *obl* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **stand** | past | boy | the handsomest young man | | there | before girl | with short curly yellow hair | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location | | 3 | **see** | past · perfect | girl | the handsomest young man *not said here* | | girl's life | ever | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | | 4 | **laugh** | gerund | | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/96/) - next →: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/98/) - ↑ back to [The Terrible Head](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/)