The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 144
On reaching home, he found the house door half open.
Who acts: rascal · What happens: reach, find · To what, where: house door
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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 reaching | mark |
| 2 | reaching | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 found | advcl |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 reaching | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 reaching | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 door | compound |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obj |
| 10 | half | half | ADV | _ | 11 open | advmod |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 found | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | gerund | rascal not said here | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | past | rascal | the house door | open property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic |
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:pg500:144.
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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