The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 142

In the meantime that rascal, Pinocchio, free now from the clutches of the Carabineer, was running wildly across fields and meadows, taking one short cut after another toward home.

Who acts: rascal · What happens: run, take, clutch · To what, where: meantime, one short cut, Carabineer

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 (rascal), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 meantime	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meantime	det
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 running	obl
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 rascal	det
5	rascal	rascal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 running	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Pinocchio	punct
7	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rascal	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 free	punct
9	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rascal	amod
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 free	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 clutches	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 clutches	det
13	clutches	clutch	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 free	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Carabineer	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Carabineer	det
16	Carabineer	carabineer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 clutches	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 free	punct
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 running	aux
19	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
20	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	19 running	advmod
21	across	across	ADP	_	22 fields	case
22	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 running	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 meadows	cc
24	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fields	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 taking	punct
26	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 running	advcl
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 cut	nummod
28	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cut	amod
29	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taking	obj
30	after	after	ADP	_	31 another	case
31	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	29 cut	nmod
32	toward	toward	ADP	_	33 home	case
33	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taking	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 running	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past · progressive	that rascal		the meantime		across fields and meadows; wildly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meantime=Trajectory
2	take	gerund	that rascal not said here	one short cut		after another	toward home	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Theme
3	clutch			the Carabineer				nom clutch «act transitive»: of=patient

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:pg500:142.

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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