Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 1934
The poor monkey was horrified when he learnt all this, and very angry at the trick played upon him.
Who acts: monkey · What happens: horrify, learn, play · To what, where: poor monkey, this, trick
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 (monkey), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 monkey | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 monkey | amod |
| 3 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horrified | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 horrified | aux:pass |
| 5 | horrified | horrify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 learnt | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 learnt | nsubj |
| 8 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 horrified | advcl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 this | det:predet |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 learnt | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 angry | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 angry | cc |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 angry | advmod |
| 14 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 horrified | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 trick | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trick | det |
| 17 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 angry | obl |
| 18 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 trick | acl |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 played | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 horrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | horrify | past · passive | the poor monkey | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | learn | past | monkey | this | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 3 | play | participle | the trick not said here | upon monkey | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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:pg4018:1934.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/1934/