The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 1138
Everyone admired him, danced attendance upon him, petted and caressed him.
Who acts: Everyone · What happens: admire, dance, pet, caress · To what, where: Woe, attendance
This is a sentence of «The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi», 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 (Everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 admired | nsubj |
| 2 | admired | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 admired | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 danced | punct |
| 5 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 admired | conj |
| 6 | attendance | attendance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 danced | obj |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 danced | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 petted | punct |
| 10 | petted | pet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 admired | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 caressed | cc |
| 12 | caressed | caress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 petted | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 caressed | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 admired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admire | past | Everyone | Woe | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | dance | past | Everyone not said here | attendance | upon Woe | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location attendance=Theme | |||
| 3 | pet | past | Everyone not said here | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | caress | past | Everyone not said here | Woe | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer |
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: «The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi», Project Gutenberg book 500 (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:pg500:1138.
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.
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