The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 355

One could almost hear a fly go by.

Who acts: One, fly · What happens: hear, go by · To what, where: fly

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 (One, fly), 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	One	one	PRON	_	4 hear	nsubj
2	could	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 hear	advmod
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fly	det
6	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hear	xcomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	7 go	compound:prt
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	can	One	a fly				almost property	tree rules
2	go by	infinitive	a fly not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:pg500:355.

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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