Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 1223
While the time was thus slipping quickly by in the quiet home, the husband finished his business and returned.
Who acts: time, husband · What happens: slip, finish, return · To what, where: business
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 (time, husband), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 slipping | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slipping | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 slipping | aux |
| 5 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 slipping | advmod |
| 6 | slipping | slip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 finished | advcl |
| 7 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 6 slipping | advmod |
| 8 | by | by | ADV | _ | 6 slipping | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 home | det |
| 11 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 home | amod |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slipping | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 slipping | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 husband | det |
| 15 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 finished | nsubj |
| 16 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 business | nmod:poss |
| 18 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 finished | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 returned | cc |
| 20 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 finished | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip | past · progressive | the time | in the quiet home; quickly, thus property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in home=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | finish | past | the husband | husband's business | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector business=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | return | past | the husband not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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:pg4018:1223.
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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