--- title: Never had he seen any one so wonderfully beautiful, and he could not… — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 (man, Moonlight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:1128 # text = 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. # source = Project Gutenberg (public domain in the USA), book id in sent_id # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18 1 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 6 det _ _ 6 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 wonderfully wonderfully ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 13 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 for for SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 24 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 advcl _ _ 25 than than ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 27 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 being being NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 shone shine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 34 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 radiance radiance NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. 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