Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 1128

Never had he seen any one so wonderfully beautiful, and he could not but look at her, for she was more lovely than any human being as she shone in her own soft radiance.

Who acts: man, Moonlight · What happens: not see, not look, be, shine, radiate · To what, where: one, own soft radiance

This is a sentence of «Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Moonlight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 seen	advmod
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seen	nsubj
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 beautiful	advmod
8	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	9 beautiful	advmod
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 look	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 look	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 look	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 look	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 look	advmod
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 look	cc
16	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seen	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 look	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lovely	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 lovely	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lovely	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lovely	cop
23	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 lovely	advmod
24	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 look	advcl
25	than	than	ADP	_	28 being	case
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 being	det
27	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 being	amod
28	being	being	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lovely	obl
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 shone	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 shone	nsubj
31	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lovely	advcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	36 radiance	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 radiance	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 radiance	amod
35	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 radiance	amod
36	radiance	radiance	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 shone	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not see	past · perfect	man	any one			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
2	not look	could	man			at Moonlight	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
3	is	past	Moonlight			than any human being; lovely property	tree rules
4	shine	past	Moonlight		Moonlight's own soft radiance		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in radiance=Location
5	radiate		Moonlight				nom radiance «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=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: «Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki», Project Gutenberg book 4018 (public domain in the USA). Annotation: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (mova-tales-silver-en.conllu), Apache-2.0 OR MIT: parsed by Mova, patched by a large language model as teacher under UD validation gates. Sentence gutenberg:pg4018:1128.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the tale's sample read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the release 0.3.

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