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title: He found him sitting by a big fire made of pieces of wood. — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics
description: He found him sitting by a big fire made of pieces of wood. Who acts: man, hook. 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.
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# Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 1783

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He found him sitting by a big fire made of pieces of wood.

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**Who acts:** man, hook · **What happens:** find, sit, make · **To what, where:** hook, big fire

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:1783
# text = He found him sitting by a big fire made of pieces of wood.
# 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	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	xcomp	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | man | hook |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | hook *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a big fire | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | a big fire *not said here* |  |  |  | of pieces of wood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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:pg4018:1783`.

**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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