Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 1746

But the good old man was too kind-hearted to refuse his neighbor, so he consented to lend the dog on condition that he should be taken great care of.

Who acts: good old man, man, condition · What happens: be, refuse, consent, lend, take · To what, where: neighbor, dog, condition, man

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 (good old man, man, condition), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 hearted	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hearted	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hearted	cop
7	too	too	ADV	_	10 hearted	advmod
8	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hearted	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 kind	punct
10	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 refuse	mark
12	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hearted	xcomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 neighbor	nmod:poss
14	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 refuse	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 consented	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 consented	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 consented	nsubj
18	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hearted	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 lend	mark
20	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 consented	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dog	det
22	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lend	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 condition	case
24	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lend	obl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 taken	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 taken	nsubj:pass
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 taken	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 taken	aux:pass
29	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 condition	acl
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 care	amod
31	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 taken	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	29 taken	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 hearted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the good old man			hearted property	tree rules
2	refuse	to-infinitive	the good old man not said here	man's neighbor			vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbor=Theme
3	consent	past	man				vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	lend	to-infinitive	man not said here	the dog	condition		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
5	take	should · passive	condition not said here	man			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme care=Destination

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:pg4018:1746.

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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