Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 473
Now, not far away there lived in the same mountain a kind, good-natured old rabbit.
Who acts: kind natured old rabbit · What happens: live · To what, where: same mountain
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 (kind natured old rabbit), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lived | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 far | advmod |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 away | advmod |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 lived | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | _ | 7 lived | expl |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 mountain | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mountain | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mountain | amod |
| 11 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 rabbit | det |
| 13 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rabbit | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 natured | punct |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 natured | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 natured | punct |
| 17 | natured | natured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rabbit | amod |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rabbit | amod |
| 19 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a kind natured old rabbit | the same mountain; there | now | away property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mountain=Location |
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:pg4018:473.
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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