--- title: The youth looked at her more closely, and saw that her skin was smoo… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The youth looked at her more closely, and saw that her skin was smooth and fair, her blue eyes bright and sparkling, and her hair as golden as the sun. He fell in love with her on the spot, and kneeling at her feet, he implored her to become his wife. Who acts: youth, skin, eye. 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He fell in love with her on the spot, and kneeling at her feet, he implored her to become his wife. **Who acts:** youth, skin, eye · **What happens:** look, see, be, sparkle, fall, kneel · **To what, where:** hair, sun., love, feet, girl, wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, skin, eye), 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:pg640:24:60 # text = The youth looked at her more closely, and saw that her skin was smooth and fair, her blue eyes bright and sparkling, and her hair as golden as the sun. He fell in love with her on the spot, and kneeling at her feet, he implored her to become his wife. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 7 closely closely ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 ccomp _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 parataxis _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 sparkling sparkle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 29 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 sun. sun. NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 kneeling kneel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 46 at at ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 50 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 51 implored implore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 52 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 obj _ _ 53 to to PART TO _ 54 mark _ _ 54 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 51 advcl _ _ 55 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 56 nmod:poss _ _ 56 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | the youth | | | | | at girl | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | the youth *not said here* | girl's hair | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | past | girl's skin | | | | | smooth *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | girl's skin *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **sparkle** | gerund | girl's skin *not said here* | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **fall** | past | eye | the sun. *not said here* | | love | | with girl; on the spot | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient sun.=Result | | 7 | **kneel** | gerund | the youth *not said here* | | | girl's feet | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location | | 8 | **implore** | past | eye | | girl | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 9 | **become** | to-infinitive | eye *not said here* | eye's wife | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/61/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/)