--- title: They gazed at him face to face, but their tongues were still with wo… — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics description: They gazed at him face to face, but their tongues were still with wonder and could not find a word to say to him. Who acts: envy, tongues. A sentence of «Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/1577/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/) / 1577 # Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 1577 They gazed at him face to face, but their tongues were still with wonder and could not find a word to say to him. **Who acts:** envy, tongues · **What happens:** gaze, be, not find, say · **To what, where:** face, word, misfortune · **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 (envy, tongues), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:1577 # text = They gazed at him face to face, but their tongues were still with wonder and could not find a word to say to him. # 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 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gazed gaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 5 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 tongues tongue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 still still ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 wonder wonder NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gaze** | past | envy | face to face | | | | at misfortune | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | envy's tongues | | | | | with wonder; still *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **find** | could | envy's tongues *not said here* | a word | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | envy's tongues *not said here* | a word *not said here* | misfortune | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | 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:pg4018:1577`. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.3/). - ← previous: [Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora…, 1550](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/1550/) - next →: [Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora…, 1616](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/1616/) - ↑ back to [the tale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/)