--- title: They were talking of the news which had recently been carried to the… — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics description: They were talking of the news which had recently been carried to them, that the King’s son had entered their country with a large army determined to exterminate their band. Who acts: flowers, son. A sentence of «Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/2216/) [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/) / 2216 # Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 2216 They were talking of the news which had recently been carried to them, that the King’s son had entered their country with a large army determined to exterminate their band. **Who acts:** flowers, son · **What happens:** talk, carry, enter, determine, exterminate · **To what, where:** news, flowers, country, large army, band 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 (flowers, son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:2216 # text = They were talking of the news which had recently been carried to them, that the King’s son had entered their country with a large army determined to exterminate their band. # 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 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 9 recently recently ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl:relcl _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 ’s 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 entered enter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 acl _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 28 determined determine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 exterminate exterminate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 band band NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | past · progressive | flowers *= flower* | | | | | of the news | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **carry** | past · perfect · passive | | the news | flowers *= flower* | | | recently *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to they=Destination | | 3 | **enter** | past · perfect | the King's son | flowers's country | | | | with a large army | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme country=Destination | | 4 | **determine** | participle | | a large army *not said here* | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **exterminate** | to-infinitive | | flowers's band | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Patient | 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:pg4018:2216`. **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…, 2158](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/2158/) - next →: [Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora…, 2259](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/2259/) - ↑ back to [the tale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/)