Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 586

The Dragon flew up so high in the heavens that in a short time the inmates of the Palace, who had been left behind disappointed, could see them no more.

Who acts: Dragon, inmates · What happens: fly up, leave behind, see · To what, where: inmates, heavens

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 (Dragon, inmates), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Dragon	det
2	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 flew	compound:prt
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 high	advmod
6	high	high	ADV	_	3 flew	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 heavens	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 heavens	det
9	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 high	obl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 see	mark
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 time	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 see	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 inmates	det
16	inmates	inmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 see	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Palace	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Palace	det
19	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 inmates	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 left	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 left	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 left	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 left	aux:pass
24	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 inmates	acl:relcl
25	behind	behind	ADV	_	24 left	advmod
26	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 left	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 left	punct
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 see	aux
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 high	advcl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 see	obj
31	no	no	ADV	_	32 more	advmod
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 see	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly up	past	the Dragon			high property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave behind	past · perfect · passive		the inmates of the Palace		behind, disappointed property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	see	could	the inmates of the Palace	heavens = heaven	time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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:pg4018:586.

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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