Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 119
Hidesato did not want to accept all these presents, but as the Dragon King insisted, he could not well refuse.
Who acts: Hidesato, Dragon King, King · What happens: not want, accept, insist, not refuse · To what, where: presents
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 (Hidesato, Dragon King, King), 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 | Hidesato | Hidesato | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 want | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 want | advmod |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 accept | mark |
| 6 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | xcomp |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 presents | det:predet |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 presents | det |
| 9 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 accept | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 refuse | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 refuse | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 insisted | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 14 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 King | compound |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 insisted | nsubj |
| 16 | insisted | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 refuse | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 insisted | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 refuse | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 refuse | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 refuse | advmod |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 refuse | advmod |
| 22 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | past · do-support | Hidesato | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | accept not said to happen | to-infinitive | Hidesato not said here | all presents | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme | ||||
| 3 | insist speech: other | past | the Dragon King | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not refuse | could | King | well property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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:pg4018:119.
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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