Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 734

Surprising the monster in its den, he made short work of cutting off its great head, which he carried back in triumph to his master.

Who acts: monkey, short work · What happens: surprise, make, cut off, carry back · To what, where: monster, den, short work, great head, triumph

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 (monkey, short work), 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	Surprising	surprise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 made	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monster	det
3	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Surprising	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 den	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 den	nmod:poss
6	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Surprising	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Surprising	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 work	amod
11	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obj
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 cutting	mark
13	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 work	acl
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 cutting	compound:prt
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 head	nmod:poss
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 head	amod
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cutting	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 carried	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 carried	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 carried	nsubj
21	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 head	acl:relcl
22	back	back	ADV	_	21 carried	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 triumph	case
24	triumph	triumph	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carried	obl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 master	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 master	nmod:poss
27	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carried	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	surprise	gerund	monkey not said here	the monster	monster's den		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus monster=Experiencer
2	make	past	monkey	short work			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Product
3	cut off	gerund	short work not said here	monster's great head			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
4	carry back	past	monkey	monster's great head	triumph	to monkey's master	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme to master=Destination

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:pg4018:734.

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.

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