Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 229
But her greed to get the big box made her forget everything else.
Who acts: greed, Hidesato · What happens: get, make, forget · To what, where: big box, Hidesato, everything
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 (greed, Hidesato), 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 | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 greed | nmod:poss |
| 3 | greed | greed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 greed | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 box | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 box | amod |
| 8 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | obj |
| 11 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | xcomp |
| 12 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 forget | obj |
| 13 | else | else | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 everything | amod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | to-infinitive | Hidesato's greed not said here | the big box | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer box=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Hidesato's greed | Hidesato | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | forget | infinitive | Hidesato not said here | everything | tree rules |
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:pg4018:229.
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/pg4018/229/