The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 189
He placed a little pan over a foot warmer full of hot coals.
Who acts: mouth · What happens: place · To what, where: little pan, foot warmer
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 placed | nsubj |
| 2 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pan | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pan | amod |
| 5 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 warmer | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 warmer | det |
| 8 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 warmer | compound |
| 9 | warmer | warmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obl |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 warmer | amod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 coals | case |
| 12 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 coals | amod |
| 13 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 full | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | mouth | a little pan | a foot warmer | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pan=Theme over warmer=Destination |
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:pg500:189.
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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