The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 173

The only relief poor Pinocchio had was to yawn; and he certainly did yawn, such a big yawn that his mouth stretched out to the tips of his ears.

Who acts: poor Pinocchio, only relief, Pinocchio, mouth · What happens: have, be, yawn, stretch out · To what, where: only relief, big yawn

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 (poor Pinocchio, only relief, Pinocchio, mouth), 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	3 relief	det
2	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 relief	amod
3	relief	relief	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 yawn	nsubj
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Pinocchio	amod
5	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 relief	acl:relcl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 yawn	cop
8	to	to	PART	_	9 yawn	mark
9	yawn	yawn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 yawn	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 yawn	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 yawn	nsubj
13	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	15 yawn	advmod
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 yawn	aux
15	yawn	yawn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 yawn	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 yawn	punct
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	20 yawn	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 yawn	det
19	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 yawn	amod
20	yawn	yawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 yawn	obj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 stretched	mark
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mouth	nmod:poss
23	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stretched	nsubj
24	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 yawn	acl
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 stretched	compound:prt
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 tips	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tips	det
28	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 stretched	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 ears	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 ears	nmod:poss
31	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 tips	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 yawn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	poor Pinocchio	the only relief not said here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relief=Patient
2	is	past	the only relief		yawn property	tree rules
3	yawn	past · do-support	Pinocchio	such big yawn	certainly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yawn=Theme
4	stretch out	past	Pinocchio's mouth	such big yawn not said here	to the tips of Pinocchio's ears result	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent yawn=Patient to tip=Result

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:pg500:173.

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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