Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 454
He then killed her and cut her up and made soup of her, and waited for the return of the old farmer.
Who acts: face, old farmer · What happens: kill, cut up, make, wait, return · To what, where: centipede, soup
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, old farmer), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 killed | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 killed | advmod |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 killed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cut | cc |
| 6 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | conj |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cut | obj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 cut | compound:prt |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | conj |
| 11 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 waited | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 waited | cc |
| 16 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 return | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 return | det |
| 19 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 waited | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 farmer | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 farmer | det |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 farmer | amod |
| 23 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 return | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | face | centipede | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | cut up | past | face not said here | centipede | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product | ||||
| 3 | make | past | face not said here | soup | of centipede | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soup=Product | |||
| 4 | wait | past | face not said here | for the return of the old farmer | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | return | the old farmer | nom return «communication 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:pg4018:454.
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/pg4018/454/