--- title: He was so charming that Delicia loved him from the moment their eyes… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He was so charming that Delicia loved him from the moment their eyes met, and as for him, of course he could not help thinking himself the luckiest Prince in the world. Who acts: Prince, Delicia, eyes. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse, with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/194/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Little Good Mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/) / 194 # The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 194 He was so charming that Delicia loved him from the moment their eyes met, and as for him, of course he could not help thinking himself the luckiest Prince in the world. **Who acts:** Prince, Delicia, eyes · **What happens:** charm, love, meet, not help, think · **To what, where:** Prince, moment This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Delicia, eyes), 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:pg540:22:194 # text = He was so charming that Delicia loved him from the moment their eyes met, and as for him, of course he could not help thinking himself the luckiest Prince in the world. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 charming charm VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 Delicia Delicia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 19 case _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 17 fixed _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 of of ADP IN ExtPos=ADV 26 advmod _ _ 22 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 fixed _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 27 thinking think VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 xcomp _ _ 28 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 27 obj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 luckiest lucky ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 31 amod _ _ 31 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **charm** | past · progressive | Prince | | | | | as head | tree rules | | 2 | **love** | past | Delicia | Prince | | | moment | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 3 | **meet** | past | people's eyes | the moment *not said here* | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moment=Co-Agent | | 4 | **not** **help** | could | Prince | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | gerund | Prince *not said here* | Prince | | | | the luckiest Prince in the world *obl* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 193](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/193/) - next →: [sentence 195](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/195/) - ↑ back to [The Little Good Mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/)