Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 2551
The pheasant flew to one side to escape the blow, and then attacked the head of first one and then another demon.
Who acts: pheasant · What happens: fly, escape, attack · To what, where: blow, head
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 (pheasant), 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 | 2 pheasant | det |
| 2 | pheasant | pheasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 side | nummod |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 escape | mark |
| 8 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 flew | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 blow | det |
| 10 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 escape | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 attacked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 attacked | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 attacked | advmod |
| 14 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 head | det |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 attacked | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 18 | first | first | ADV | _ | 19 one | advmod |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 head | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 demon | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 demon | advmod |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 demon | det |
| 23 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 one | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the pheasant | to one side result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to side=Result | ||||
| 2 | escape | to-infinitive | the pheasant not said here | the blow | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme blow=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | attack | past | the pheasant not said here | the head of one and another demon | then | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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:pg4018:2551.
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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