The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 325

And to think that poor old Geppetto sat at home in his shirt sleeves, shivering with cold, having sold his coat to buy that little book for his son!

Who acts: old Geppetto · What happens: think, sit, shiver, sell, buy · To what, where: home, coat, little book · 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 (old Geppetto), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 think	cc
2	to	to	PART	_	3 think	mark
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 sat	mark
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 old	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Geppetto	amod
7	Geppetto	Geppetto	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sat	nsubj
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 home	case
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 sleeves	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sleeves	nmod:poss
13	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sleeves	compound
14	sleeves	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sat	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shivering	punct
16	shivering	shiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sat	advcl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 cold	case
18	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shivering	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sold	punct
20	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 sold	aux
21	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 sat	advcl
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 coat	nmod:poss
23	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sold	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 buy	mark
25	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sold	advcl
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 book	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 book	amod
28	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 buy	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 son	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 son	nmod:poss
31	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 buy	obl
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	to-infinitive					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	sit	past	old Geppetto		home	in Geppetto's shirt sleeves	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location
3	shiver	gerund	old Geppetto not said here			with cold	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	sell	gerund · perfect	old Geppetto not said here	Geppetto's coat			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme
5	buy	to-infinitive	old Geppetto not said here	that little book		for Geppetto's son	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent book=Theme for son=Beneficiary

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:pg500:325.

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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