--- title: When the rabbit heard the story he was very angry at the wicked and… — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics description: When the rabbit heard the story he was very angry at the wicked and deceitful badger, and told the old man to leave everything to him and he would avenge his wife’s death. Who acts: rabbit, wife. 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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 (rabbit, wife), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:476 # text = When the rabbit heard the story he was very angry at the wicked and deceitful badger, and told the old man to leave everything to him and he would avenge his wife’s death. # 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 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 13 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 deceitful deceitful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 16 badger badger NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 25 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 24 obj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 avenge avenge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 ’s 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | the rabbit | the story | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | past | rabbit | | | | | at the wicked badger; angry *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | rabbit *not said here* | | the old man | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **leave** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | rabbit *not said here* | everything | rabbit | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Theme to he=Recipient | | 5 | **avenge** | would | rabbit | rabbit's wife's death | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **die** | | rabbit's wife | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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