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title: Then pick some of those kaba flowers that are growing near the edge… — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics
description: Then pick some of those kaba flowers that are growing near the edge of the water, spread them on the ground and roll yourself on them. Who acts: you, kaba flowers. A sentence of «Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 2158

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Then pick some of those kaba flowers that are growing near the edge of the water, spread them on the ground and roll yourself on them.

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**Who acts:** you, kaba flowers · **What happens:** pick, grow, spread, roll · **To what, where:** some, edge, flowers, ground, yourself

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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 (you, kaba flowers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:2158
# text = Then pick some of those kaba flowers that are growing near the edge of the water, spread them on the ground and roll yourself on them.
# 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	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	kaba	kaba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	near	near	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	spread	spread	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	roll	roll	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | imperative | you *not said here* | some |  |  | then |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | present · progressive | that kaba flowers |  |  | the edge of the water |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near edge=Location |
| 3 | **spread** | infinitive | you *not said here* | flowers *= flower* |  | the ground |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on ground=Destination |
| 4 | **roll** | infinitive | you *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  | on flowers *= flower* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme on they=Trajectory |

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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:pg4018:2158`.

**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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