Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 2057

He told himself he had nothing now to fear.

Who acts: monkey · What happens: tell, have, fear · To what, where: monkey, nothing · 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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 told	iobj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	ccomp
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 had	obj
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 had	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fear	mark
9	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 nothing	acl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	monkey		monkey		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	past	monkey	nothing		now	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	fear	to-infinitive	monkey not said here	nothing not said here			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:pg4018:2057.

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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