The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 409
Even the officers, who were made of wood also, cried like two babies.
Who acts: officers · What happens: make, cry · To what, where: officers
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 (officers), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 officers | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 officers | det |
| 3 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 made | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | aux:pass |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 officers | acl:relcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wood | case |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 made | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 babies | case |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 babies | nummod |
| 15 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cried | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | the officers | of wood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the officers | like two babies | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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:pg500:409.
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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