The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 1204
These battles between boys rarely end well.
Who acts: battles · What happens: end
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 (battles), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 battles | det |
| 2 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 end | nsubj |
| 3 | between | between | ADP | _ | 4 boys | case |
| 4 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 battles | nmod |
| 5 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 6 end | advmod |
| 6 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 end | advmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 end | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | this battles between boys | rarely, well property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:pg500:1204.
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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