The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 133
Désiré had never seen anyone half so lovely, and he stood gazing at her in delight.
Who acts: Désiré · What happens: not see, stand, gaze · To what, where: anyone, Scarcely
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Désiré), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:3066): 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Désiré | Désiré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 seen | advmod |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 seen | obj |
| 6 | half | half | ADV | _ | 8 lovely | advmod |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 lovely | advmod |
| 8 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 anyone | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stood | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | conj |
| 13 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 stood | xcomp |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 delight | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gazing | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 delight | case |
| 17 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gazing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · perfect | anyone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | Désiré | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | gaze | gerund | Désiré not said here | Scarcely | at delight | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at delight=Theme |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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