--- title: Princess Moonlight then sent word to the First Knight that she reque… — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics description: Princess Moonlight then sent word to the First Knight that she requested him to bring her the stone bowl which had belonged to Buddha in India. Who acts: Princess Moonlight, Moonlight, stone bowl. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess Moonlight, Moonlight, stone bowl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:1036 # text = Princess Moonlight then sent word to the First Knight that she requested him to bring her the stone bowl which had belonged to Buddha in India. # source = Project Gutenberg (public domain in the USA), book id in sent_id # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18 1 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Moonlight Moonlight PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 4 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 First first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 amod _ _ 9 Knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 requested request VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 iobj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 belonged belong VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Buddha Buddha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | Princess Moonlight | word | the First Knight | | then | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to knight=Destination | | 2 | **request** | past | Moonlight | man | | | | | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive | Moonlight *not said here* | the stone bowl | Moonlight | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination bowl=Theme | | 4 | **belong** | past · perfect | the stone bowl | | Buddha in India | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | 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. 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