Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 1616
At last the Sea King clapped his hands, and then a huge retinue of fishes appeared, all robed in ceremonial garments, and bearing in their fins various trays on which all kinds of sea delicacies were served.
Who acts: Sea King, huge retinue · What happens: clap, appear, robe, bear, serve · To what, where: hands, last, various trays, fins, kinds
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 (Sea King, huge retinue), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 clapped | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 4 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 King | compound |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 clapped | nsubj |
| 6 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hands | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 clapped | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 appeared | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 appeared | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 appeared | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 retinue | det |
| 13 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 retinue | amod |
| 14 | retinue | retinue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 appeared | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 fishes | case |
| 16 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 retinue | nmod |
| 17 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 clapped | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 robed | punct |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 robed | advmod |
| 20 | robed | robe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 appeared | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 garments | case |
| 22 | ceremonial | ceremonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 garments | amod |
| 23 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 robed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bearing | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bearing | cc |
| 26 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 robed | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 fins | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 fins | nmod:poss |
| 29 | fins | fin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 bearing | obl |
| 30 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 trays | amod |
| 31 | trays | tray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 bearing | obj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 which | case |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 served | obl |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 kinds | det |
| 35 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 served | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 delicacies | case |
| 37 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 delicacies | compound |
| 38 | delicacies | delicacy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 kinds | nmod |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 served | aux:pass |
| 40 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 trays | acl:relcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 clapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clap | past | the Sea King | King's hands | last | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | appear | past | a huge retinue of fishes | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | robe | participle | a huge retinue of fishes not said here | in ceremonial garments | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in garment=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bear | gerund | a huge retinue of fishes not said here | various trays | garments's fins | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tray=Patient | |||
| 5 | serve | past · passive | all kinds of sea delicacies | various trays | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
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:pg4018:1616.
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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