Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 635
The poor monkey sat up rubbing his back, and his face was very long as he screamed angrily.
Who acts: poor monkey, face · What happens: sit up, rub, be, scream · To what, where: back
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 (poor monkey, face), 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 | 3 monkey | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 monkey | amod |
| 3 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 sat | compound:prt |
| 6 | rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sat | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 back | nmod:poss |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rubbing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 long | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 long | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 face | nmod:poss |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 long | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 long | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 long | advmod |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sat | conj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 screamed | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 screamed | nsubj |
| 18 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 long | advcl |
| 19 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 18 screamed | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit up | past | the poor monkey | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | rub | gerund | the poor monkey not said here | monkey's back | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | monkey's face | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | scream speech: express | past | face | angrily property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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:pg4018:635.
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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