--- title: Again and again, as fast as he could pick them, the monkey pulled of… — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics description: Again and again, as fast as he could pick them, the monkey pulled off the hard persimmons and threw them at the defenseless crab till he dropped dead, covered with wounds all over his body. Who acts: monkey. 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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 (monkey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:2017 # text = Again and again, as fast as he could pick them, the monkey pulled off the hard persimmons and threw them at the defenseless crab till he dropped dead, covered with wounds all over his body. # 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 Again again ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 again again ADV RB _ 1 conj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 as as ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 fast fast ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 off off ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 persimmons persimmon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 defenseless defenseless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 crab crab NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 till till SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 30 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 advcl _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 wounds wound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 35 all all ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 36 over over ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick** | could | monkey | kinds *= kind* | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 2 | **pull off** | past | the monkey | the hard persimmons | | | again | fast *property* | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent persimmon=Eventuality | | 3 | **throw** | past | the monkey *not said here* | persimmons *= persimmon* | | | | at the defenseless crab | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme at crab=Destination | | 4 | **drop** | past | monkey | | | | | dead *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **cover** | participle | monkey *not said here* | | | monkey's body | | with wounds | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wound=Theme | 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:pg4018:2017`. **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…, 1958](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/1958/) - next →: [Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora…, 2057](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/2057/) - ↑ back to [the tale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/)