The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 1773
Observe, I beg of you, the savage look of his eye.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: observe, beg · To what, where: savage look
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, I), 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 | Observe | observe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 beg | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 beg | nsubj |
| 4 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Observe | parataxis |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 beg | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 beg | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 look | det |
| 9 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 look | amod |
| 10 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Observe | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 eye | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eye | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 look | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Observe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | imperative | you not said here | the savage look of Wick's eye | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent look=Topic | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | present | I | of you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
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:pg500:1773.
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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