--- title: Crocodile, you live in the sea and I live on this island, and we do… — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics description: Crocodile, you live in the sea and I live on this island, and we do not often meet, so I know very little about you. Who acts: you, I, we. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/2115/) [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/) / 2115 # Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 2115 Crocodile, you live in the sea and I live on this island, and we do not often meet, so I know very little about you. **Who acts:** you, I, we · **What happens:** live, not meet, know · **To what, where:** sea, island, little 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 (you, I, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:2115 # text = Crocodile, you live in the sea and I live on this island, and we do not often meet, so I know very little about you. # 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 Crocodile crocodile NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 vocative _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 13 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 17 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 19 often often ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 25 very very ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obj _ _ 27 about about ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | you | | | the sea | | Crocodile *vocative* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location | | 2 | **live** | present | I | | | this island | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location | | 3 | **not** **meet** | present · do-support | we | | | | | often *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **know** | present | I | little | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus | 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:pg4018:2115`. **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…, 2057](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/2057/) - next →: [Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora…, 2158](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/2158/) - ↑ back to [the tale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/)