Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 2548
Wait till you get a blow from one of our iron bars!” Very angry, indeed, were the devils.
Who acts: you, devils · What happens: wait, get, be · To what, where: blow · 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 (you, devils), 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 4 get | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 blow | det |
| 6 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 blow | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bars | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bars | nmod:poss |
| 11 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bars | compound |
| 12 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| 15 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 16 angry | advmod |
| 16 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 indeed | punct |
| 18 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 16 angry | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 indeed | punct |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 angry | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 devils | det |
| 22 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 angry | nsubj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | present | you | a blow | from one of our iron bars | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent blow=Theme from one=Source | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | the devils | angry, indeed property | 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:pg4018:2548.
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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