The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 1566

The donkeys galloped, the wagon rolled on smoothly, the boys slept (Lamp-Wick snored like a dormouse) and the little, fat driver sang sleepily between his teeth.

Who acts: donkeys, wagon, boys, Lamp Wick, little fat driver · What happens: gallop, roll on, sleep, snore, sing · To what, where: teeth

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 (donkeys, wagon, boys, Lamp Wick), 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 donkeys	det
2	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 galloped	nsubj
3	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rolled	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wagon	det
6	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rolled	nsubj
7	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 galloped	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 rolled	compound:prt
9	smoothly	smoothly	ADV	_	7 rolled	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 slept	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boys	det
12	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 slept	nsubj
13	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 galloped	conj
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 snored	punct
15	Lamp	Lamp	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Wick	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Wick	punct
17	Wick	Wick	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 snored	nsubj
18	snored	snore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 slept	parataxis
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 dormouse	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 dormouse	det
21	dormouse	dormouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 snored	obl
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 snored	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sang	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 driver	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 driver	amod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fat	punct
27	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 driver	amod
28	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sang	nsubj
29	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 galloped	conj
30	sleepily	sleepily	ADV	_	29 sang	advmod
31	between	between	ADP	_	33 teeth	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 teeth	nmod:poss
33	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sang	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 galloped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	gallop	past	the donkeys			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	roll on	past	the wagon		smoothly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sleep	past	the boys			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	snore	past	Lamp Wick		like a dormouse	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sing speech: express	past	the little fat driver	driver's teeth	sleepily property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between tooth=Location

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:pg500:1566.

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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