The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 1894
“Quick, Pinocchio, the monster is coming nearer!” Pinocchio swam faster and faster, and harder and harder.
Who acts: monster, Pinocchio · What happens: come, swim · 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 (monster, Pinocchio), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 coming | punct |
| 2 | Quick | quick | ADV | _ | 9 coming | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Quick | punct |
| 4 | Pinocchio | Pinocchio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 coming | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Pinocchio | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 monster | det |
| 7 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coming | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 coming | aux |
| 9 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 swam | parataxis |
| 10 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 coming | advmod |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 coming | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 coming | punct |
| 13 | Pinocchio | Pinocchio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 swam | nsubj |
| 14 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 swam | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 faster | cc |
| 17 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 faster | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 harder | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 harder | cc |
| 20 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 faster | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 harder | cc |
| 22 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 harder | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · progressive | the monster | Pinocchio vocative; near, quick property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swim | past | Pinocchio | fast property | tree rules |
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:pg500:1894.
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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