--- title: Surprising the monster in its den, he made short work of cutting off… — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics description: Surprising the monster in its den, he made short work of cutting off its great head, which he carried back in triumph to his master. Who acts: monkey, short work. A sentence of «Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg with its dependency tree and the prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/734/) [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/) / 734 # Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 734 Surprising the monster in its den, he made short work of cutting off its great head, which he carried back in triumph to his master. **Who acts:** monkey, short work · **What happens:** surprise, make, cut off, carry back · **To what, where:** monster, den, short work, great head, triumph 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 (monkey, short work), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:734 # text = Surprising the monster in its den, he made short work of cutting off its great head, which he carried back in triumph to his master. # 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 Surprising surprise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 monster monster NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 cutting cut VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 14 off off ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 obj _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 22 back back ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 triumph triumph NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **surprise** | gerund | monkey *not said here* | the monster | | monster's den | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus monster=Experiencer | | 2 | **make** | past | monkey | short work | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Product | | 3 | **cut off** | gerund | short work *not said here* | monster's great head | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | | 4 | **carry back** | past | monkey | monster's great head | | triumph | | to monkey's master | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme to master=Destination | 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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