--- title: At last the Sea King clapped his hands, and then a huge retinue of f… — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics description: At last the Sea King clapped his hands, and then a huge retinue of fishes appeared, all robed in ceremonial garments, and bearing in their fins various trays on which all kinds of sea delicacies were served. Who acts: Sea King, huge retinue. 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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 (Sea King, huge retinue), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:1616 # text = At last the Sea King clapped his hands, and then a huge retinue of fishes appeared, all robed in ceremonial garments, and bearing in their fins various trays on which all kinds of sea delicacies were served. # 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 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 clapped clap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 11 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 retinue retinue NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 fishes fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 20 advmod _ _ 20 robed robe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 advcl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 ceremonial ceremonial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 garments garment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 bearing bear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 conj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 fins fin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 30 various various ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 trays tray NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 obl _ _ 34 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 35 det _ _ 35 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 delicacies delicacy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ _ 39 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 served serve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl:relcl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **clap** | past | the Sea King | King's hands | | last | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | | 2 | **appear** | past | a huge retinue of fishes | | | | then | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **robe** | participle | a huge retinue of fishes *not said here* | | | | | in ceremonial garments | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in garment=Theme | | 4 | **bear** | gerund | a huge retinue of fishes *not said here* | various trays | | garments's fins | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tray=Patient | | 5 | **serve** | past · passive | | all kinds of sea delicacies | | various trays | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | 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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