The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 1455

The day promised to be a very gay and happy one, but-- Unluckily, in a Marionette’s life there’s always a BUT which is apt to spoil everything.

Who acts: day, BUT · What happens: promise, be, spoil · To what, where: gay one, life, everything

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 (day, BUT), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 promised	nsubj
3	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	11 one	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 one	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 one	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 gay	advmod
8	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 happy	cc
10	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gay	conj
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 promised	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ’s	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 ’s	cc
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 ’s	punct
15	Unluckily	unluckily	ADV	_	23 ’s	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Unluckily	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	21 life	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 life	det
19	Marionette	marionette	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 life	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 Marionette	case
21	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ’s	obl
22	there	there	PRON	_	23 ’s	expl
23	’s	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 promised	conj
24	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	26 BUT	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 BUT	det
26	BUT	but	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ’s	nsubj
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 apt	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 apt	cop
29	apt	apt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 BUT	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 spoil	mark
31	spoil	spoil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 apt	xcomp
32	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	31 spoil	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	the day				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	the day not said here	a gay one			tree rules
3	be	present	a BUT		Marionette's life; there	unluckily property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in life=Location
4	is	present	a BUT			apt property	tree rules
5	spoil	to-infinitive	a BUT not said here	everything			tree rules

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:pg500:1455.

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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