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title: The youth could not turn away his eyes from the maiden, for he had n… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The youth could not turn away his eyes from the maiden, for he had never in his life seen a woman so beautiful. Who acts: youth, foot. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 57

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The youth could not turn away his eyes from the maiden, for he had never in his life seen a woman so beautiful.

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**Who acts:** youth, foot · **What happens:** not turn away, not see · **To what, where:** eyes, maiden, woman, life

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, foot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg640:209`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:5:57
# text = The youth could not turn away his eyes from the maiden, for he had never in his life seen a woman so beautiful.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
20	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **turn away** | could | the youth | foot's eyes |  | the maiden |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Theme from maiden=Source |
| 2 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | foot | a woman |  | foot's life |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |

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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:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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