Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 1883
“This is what you must do,” said the wily chief steward.
Who acts: This, you, wily chief steward · What happens: be, do, say · 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 (This, you, wily chief steward), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 what | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 steward | det |
| 12 | wily | wily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 steward | amod |
| 13 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 steward | amod |
| 14 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | must | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the wily chief steward | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:pg4018:1883.
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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