Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 1736

What was his astonishment when, after digging for some time, he came upon a heap of old and valuable coins, and the deeper he dug the more gold coins did he find.

Who acts: astonishment, hook · What happens: be, dig, come, find, astonish · To what, where: heap, more gold coins

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 (astonishment, hook), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 astonishment	nmod:poss
4	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 digging	punct
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 digging	mark
8	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 came	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 time	case
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 digging	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 digging	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	advcl
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 heap	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 heap	det
17	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 coins	case
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 coins	amod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 valuable	cc
21	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 old	conj
22	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 heap	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 find	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 find	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 deeper	det
26	deeper	deep	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 dug	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dug	nsubj
28	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 find	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 coins	det
30	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 coins	amod
31	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 coins	compound
32	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 find	obj
33	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 find	aux
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 find	nsubj
35	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 What	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	hook's astonishment					tree rules
2	dig	gerund	hook not said here			time		vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	hook		a heap of old coins			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon heap=Location
4	dig	past	hook				deep property	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	find	past · do-support	hook	the more gold coins				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Topic
6	astonish		hook					nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=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:pg4018:1736.

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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