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title: The pheasant flew to one side to escape the blow, and then attacked… — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics
description: The pheasant flew to one side to escape the blow, and then attacked the head of first one and then another demon. Who acts: pheasant. 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 2551

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The pheasant flew to one side to escape the blow, and then attacked the head of first one and then another demon.

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**Who acts:** pheasant · **What happens:** fly, escape, attack · **To what, where:** blow, head

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:2551
# text = The pheasant flew to one side to escape the blow, and then attacked the head of first one and then another demon.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pheasant	pheasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	first	first	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | the pheasant |  |  |  |  | to one side *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to side=Result |
| 2 | **escape** | to-infinitive | the pheasant *not said here* | the blow |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme blow=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **attack** | past | the pheasant *not said here* | the head of one and another demon |  |  | then |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |

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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:pg4018:2551`.

**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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