--- title: He then killed her and cut her up and made soup of her, and waited f… — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics description: He then killed her and cut her up and made soup of her, and waited for the return of the old farmer. Who acts: face, old farmer. 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/pg4018/454/) [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/) / 454 # Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 454 He then killed her and cut her up and made soup of her, and waited for the return of the old farmer. **Who acts:** face, old farmer · **What happens:** kill, cut up, make, wait, return · **To what, where:** centipede, soup 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 (face, old farmer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:454 # text = He then killed her and cut her up and made soup of her, and waited for the return of the old farmer. # 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 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 soup soup NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 return return NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kill** | past | face | centipede | | | then | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 2 | **cut up** | past | face *not said here* | centipede | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product | | 3 | **make** | past | face *not said here* | soup | | | | of centipede | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soup=Product | | 4 | **wait** | past | face *not said here* | | | | | for the return of the old farmer | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **return** | | the old farmer | | | | | | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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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