The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 2004
Was he shivering from fear or from cold?
Who acts: Pinocchio · What happens: shiver
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 (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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shivering | aux |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shivering | nsubj |
| 3 | shivering | shiver | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 fear | case |
| 5 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shivering | obl |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 cold | cc |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 cold | case |
| 8 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fear | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 shivering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shiver | past · progressive | Pinocchio | from fear or cold | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from fear=Stimulus |
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:pg500:2004.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg500/2004/