The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 37
“Oh, I see,” he said, trying bravely to laugh and ruffling up his wig with his hand.
Who acts: I, he · What happens: see, say, try, laugh, ruffle up · To what, where: wig · 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 (I, he), 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 | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 see | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 trying | punct |
| 11 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 12 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 11 trying | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 laugh | mark |
| 14 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 trying | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ruffling | cc |
| 16 | ruffling | ruffle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 trying | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 ruffling | compound:prt |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wig | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wig | wig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ruffling | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 hand | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hand | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ruffling | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | try | gerund | he not said here | bravely property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | laugh not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | ruffle up | gerund | he not said here | his wig | with his hand | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wig=Experiencer |
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:pg500:37.
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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