The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 1231
How shall I ever look at my little mother again?
Who acts: I · What happens: look
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 (I), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 look | advmod |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 look | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 look | nsubj |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 look | advmod |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 mother | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mother | amod |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | obl |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 look | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | shall | I | ever; again | at my little mother | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at mother=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:pg500:1231.
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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