Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 2645

When they were both in the room Watanabe shut the door carefully, and then going towards a big box which stood in a corner of the room, he took off the heavy lid.

Who acts: devils, Watanabe, big box · What happens: be, shut, go, stand, take off · To what, where: room, door, big box, corner, heavy lid

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 (devils, Watanabe, big box), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 room	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 room	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 room	cop
4	both	both	ADV	_	7 room	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 room	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shut	advcl
8	Watanabe	Watanabe	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 shut	nsubj
9	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shut	obj
12	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	9 shut	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 took	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 took	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 going	advmod
16	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 took	advcl
17	towards	towards	ADP	_	20 box	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 box	det
19	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 box	amod
20	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 going	obl
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 stood	nsubj
22	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 box	acl:relcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 corner	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 corner	det
25	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stood	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 room	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 room	det
28	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 corner	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 took	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 took	nsubj
31	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shut	conj
32	off	off	ADP	_	31 took	compound:prt
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 lid	det
34	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 lid	amod
35	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 took	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	devils = devil		the room		both property	tree rules
2	shut	past	Watanabe	the door			carefully property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient
3	go	gerund	Watanabe not said here		a big box	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards box=Initial_Location
4	stand	past	a big box		a corner of the room			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
5	take off	past	Watanabe	the heavy lid				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme

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:pg4018:2645.

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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