The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 1628
Fancy how he felt when he noticed that overnight those two dainty organs had become as long as shoe brushes!
Who acts: you, Wick, two dainty organs · What happens: fancy, feel, notice, become · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, Wick, two dainty organs), 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 | Fancy | fancy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 felt | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Fancy | ccomp |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 noticed | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 noticed | nsubj |
| 7 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 become | mark |
| 9 | overnight | overnight | ADV | _ | 15 become | advmod |
| 10 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 organs | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 organs | nummod |
| 12 | dainty | dainty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 organs | amod |
| 13 | organs | organ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 become | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 become | aux |
| 15 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 noticed | ccomp |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 long | advmod |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 become | xcomp |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 brushes | case |
| 19 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brushes | compound |
| 20 | brushes | brush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 long | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fancy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | imperative | you not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | feel | past | Wick | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | notice | past | Wick | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | become | past · perfect | that two dainty organs | long, overnight property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:pg500:1628.
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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