Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 381

Then, with his face turned eagerly towards his own land, he looked for the rising of the blue hills on the horizon before him.

Who acts: face, blue hills · What happens: turn, look, rise · To what, where: own land

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 (face, blue hills), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 looked	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 turned	punct
3	with	with	SCONJ	_	6 turned	mark
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 face	nmod:poss
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	nsubj
6	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 looked	advcl
7	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	6 turned	advmod
8	towards	towards	ADP	_	11 land	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 land	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 land	amod
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 looked	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 looked	nsubj
14	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 rising	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rising	det
17	rising	rising	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 looked	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 hills	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hills	det
20	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hills	amod
21	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 rising	nmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 horizon	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 horizon	det
24	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hills	nmod
25	before	before	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 looked	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	participle	King's face	face's own land		eagerly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards land=Trajectory
2	look	past	face		before King; then	for the rising of the blue hills on the horizon	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for rising=Theme before he=Location
3	rise		the blue hills on the horizon				nom rising «event intransitive»: of=agent

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:pg4018:381.

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.

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