The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 1953

There they ate like wolves and I left the Inn alone and I met the Assassins in the wood.

Who acts: Fox, I · What happens: eat, leave, meet · To what, where: Inn, Assassins, wood

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 (Fox, 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	There	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 ate	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 wolves	case
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ate	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 left	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 left	nsubj
8	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ate	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Inn	det
10	Inn	Inn	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 left	obj
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 left	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 met	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 met	nsubj
14	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ate	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Assassins	det
16	Assassins	assassin	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 met	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 wood	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wood	det
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 met	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Fox		there	like wolves	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	leave	past	I	the Inn		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inn=Theme
3	meet	past	I	the Assassins	the wood		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assassin=Co-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:pg500:1953.

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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