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title: But the good old man was too kind-hearted to refuse his neighbor, so… — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics
description: But the good old man was too kind-hearted to refuse his neighbor, so he consented to lend the dog on condition that he should be taken great care of. Who acts: good old man, man, condition. A sentence of «Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg with its d
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# Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 1746

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But the good old man was too kind-hearted to refuse his neighbor, so he consented to lend the dog on condition that he should be taken great care of.

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**Who acts:** good old man, man, condition · **What happens:** be, refuse, consent, lend, take · **To what, where:** neighbor, dog, condition, man

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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 (good old man, man, condition), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:1746
# text = But the good old man was too kind-hearted to refuse his neighbor, so he consented to lend the dog on condition that he should be taken great care of.
# 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	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	consented	consent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	lend	lend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the good old man |  |  |  |  | hearted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **refuse** | to-infinitive | the good old man *not said here* | man's neighbor |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbor=Theme |
| 3 | **consent** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **lend** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | the dog |  | condition |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | should · passive | condition *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme care=Destination |

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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.

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**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:pg4018:1746`.

**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/).

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