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title: Désiré had never seen anyone half so lovely, and he stood gazing at… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Désiré had never seen anyone half so lovely, and he stood gazing at her in delight. Who acts: Désiré. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 133

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Désiré had never seen anyone half so lovely, and he stood gazing at her in delight.

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**Who acts:** Désiré · **What happens:** not see, stand, gaze · **To what, where:** anyone, Scarcely

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:40:133
# text = Désiré had never seen anyone half so lovely, and he stood gazing at her in delight.
1	Désiré	Désiré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	half	half	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	xcomp	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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 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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