The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 476
The poor Cat felt very weak, and he was able to eat only thirty-five mullets with tomato sauce and four portions of tripe with cheese.
Who acts: poor Cat, Cat · What happens: feel, be, eat · To what, where: five mullets
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 (poor Cat, Cat), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Cat | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Cat | amod |
| 3 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 weak | advmod |
| 6 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 able | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 able | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 able | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 able | cop |
| 11 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 eat | mark |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | xcomp |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 five | advmod |
| 15 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 five | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 thirty | punct |
| 17 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 mullets | nummod |
| 18 | mullets | mullet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 eat | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 sauce | case |
| 20 | tomato | tomato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sauce | compound |
| 21 | sauce | sauce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mullets | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 portions | cc |
| 23 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 portions | nummod |
| 24 | portions | portion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 mullets | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 tripe | case |
| 26 | tripe | tripe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 portions | nmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 cheese | case |
| 28 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tripe | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the poor Cat | weak property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Cat | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | Cat not said here | five mullets and four portions of tripe with cheese | with tomato sauce | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mullet=Patient |
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:pg500:476.
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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