--- title: What was his astonishment when, after digging for some time, he came… — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics description: What was his astonishment when, after digging for some time, he came upon a heap of old and valuable coins, and the deeper he dug the more gold coins did he find. Who acts: astonishment, hook. A sentence of «Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/1736/) [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/) / 1736 # Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 1736 What was his astonishment when, after digging for some time, he came upon a heap of old and valuable coins, and the deeper he dug the more gold coins did he find. **Who acts:** astonishment, hook · **What happens:** be, dig, come, find, astonish · **To what, where:** heap, more gold coins 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 (astonishment, hook), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:1736 # text = What was his astonishment when, after digging for some time, he came upon a heap of old and valuable coins, and the deeper he dug the more gold coins did he find. # 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 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 astonishment astonishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 after after SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 digging dig VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 advcl _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 11 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 15 upon upon ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 heap heap NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 valuable valuable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 22 coins coin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 deeper deep ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 28 advmod _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 dug dig VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 amod _ _ 31 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 coins coin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 33 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | hook's astonishment | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **dig** | gerund | hook *not said here* | | | | time | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come** | past | hook | | | a heap of old coins | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon heap=Location | | 4 | **dig** | past | hook | | | | | deep *property* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **find** | past · do-support | hook | the more gold coins | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Topic | | 6 | **astonish** | | hook | | | | | | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=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:pg4018:1736`. **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…, 1666](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/1666/) - next →: [Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora…, 1746](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/1746/) - ↑ back to [the tale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/)