Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 1577

They gazed at him face to face, but their tongues were still with wonder and could not find a word to say to him.

Who acts: envy, tongues · What happens: gaze, be, not find, say · To what, where: face, word, misfortune · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (envy, tongues), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gazed	nsubj
2	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gazed	obl
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gazed	obl:unmarked
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 face	case
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 face	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 still	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 still	cc
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 tongues	nmod:poss
11	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 still	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 still	cop
13	still	still	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gazed	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 wonder	case
15	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 still	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 find	cc
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 find	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 find	advmod
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 still	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 word	det
21	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 find	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 say	mark
23	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 word	acl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 say	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gazed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	gaze	past	envy	face to face		at misfortune	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	is	past	envy's tongues			with wonder; still property	tree rules
3	not find	could	envy's tongues not said here	a word			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	envy's tongues not said here	a word not said here	misfortune		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

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:pg4018:1577.

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.

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