The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 1188

He has called us sins.” “Pinocchio, apologize for that, or look out!” “Cuck--oo!” said the Marionette, mocking them with his thumb to his nose.

Who acts: teacher, Marionette · What happens: call, apologize, look out, say, mock · To what, where: us, sins · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (teacher, Marionette), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 called	aux
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 called	obj
5	sins	sin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 called	xcomp
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 apologize	punct
9	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 apologize	vocative
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Pinocchio	punct
11	apologize	apologize	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 called	parataxis
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 that	case
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 apologize	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 look	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 look	cc
16	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 apologize	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 look	compound:prt
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 apologize	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 apologize	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 Cuck	punct
21	Cuck	cuck	INTJ	_	26 said	ccomp
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 oo	punct
23	oo	oo	X	_	21 Cuck	goeswith
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 Cuck	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 Cuck	punct
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Marionette	det
28	Marionette	Marionette	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 said	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 mocking	punct
30	mocking	mock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 said	advcl
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 mocking	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 thumb	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 thumb	nmod:poss
34	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mocking	obl
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 nose	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 nose	nmod:poss
37	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 thumb	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	present · perfect	teacher	us		tree rules
2	apologize speech: apologize	infinitive			for that; Pinocchio vocative	tree rules
3	look out	infinitive				vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the Marionette			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	mock in a quote	gerund	the Marionette not said here	sins = sin	with teacher's thumb to teacher's nose	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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: «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:pg500:1188.

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.

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