Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 476

When the rabbit heard the story he was very angry at the wicked and deceitful badger, and told the old man to leave everything to him and he would avenge his wife’s death.

Who acts: rabbit, wife · What happens: hear, be, tell, leave, avenge, die · To what, where: story, old man, everything, rabbit, death · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (rabbit, wife), 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	4 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rabbit	det
3	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 angry	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 angry	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 angry	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 angry	advmod
10	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	16 badger	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 badger	det
13	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 badger	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 deceitful	cc
15	deceitful	deceitful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wicked	conj
16	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 angry	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 angry	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 leave	mark
24	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 told	xcomp
25	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	24 leave	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 leave	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 avenge	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 avenge	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 avenge	aux
31	avenge	avenge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 told	conj
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 wife	nmod:poss
33	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 death	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 wife	case
35	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 avenge	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the rabbit	the story			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
2	is	past	rabbit			at the wicked badger; angry property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	rabbit not said here		the old man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic
4	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	rabbit not said here	everything	rabbit		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Theme to he=Recipient
5	avenge	would	rabbit	rabbit's wife's death			tree rules
6	die		rabbit's wife				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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:pg4018:476.

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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