--- title: When they were both in the room Watanabe shut the door carefully, an… — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics description: When they were both in the room Watanabe shut the door carefully, and then going towards a big box which stood in a corner of the room, he took off the heavy lid. Who acts: devils, Watanabe, big box. 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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 (devils, Watanabe, big box), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:2645 # text = When they were both in the room Watanabe shut the door carefully, and then going towards a big box which stood in a corner of the room, he took off the heavy lid. # 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 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 both both ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 advcl _ _ 8 Watanabe Watanabe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 shut shut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 15 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 16 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 17 towards towards ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 32 off off ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 lid lid NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | devils *= devil* | | | the room | | both *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **shut** | past | Watanabe | the door | | | | carefully *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | | 3 | **go** | gerund | Watanabe *not said here* | | | a big box | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards box=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **stand** | past | a big box | | | a corner of the room | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location | | 5 | **take off** | past | Watanabe | the heavy lid | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=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. 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