The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 498

He could not even wait to say good-by to you.” “Did they pay for the supper?” “How could they do such a thing?

Who acts: Cat, mullets · What happens: not wait, say, pay, do · To what, where: good by, you, thing · 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 (Cat, mullets), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wait	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 wait	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 wait	advmod
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 wait	advmod
5	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wait	xcomp
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 by	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 by	punct
10	by	by	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 say	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wait	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 wait	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 pay	punct
16	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 pay	aux
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pay	nsubj
18	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wait	parataxis
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 supper	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 supper	det
21	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pay	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 pay	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 pay	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 do	punct
25	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 do	advmod
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 do	aux
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 do	nsubj
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wait	parataxis
29	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	31 thing	det:predet
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 thing	det
31	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 do	obj
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not wait	could	Cat				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Cat not said here	good by	you		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent by=Topic to you=Recipient
3	pay	past · do-support	mullets = mullet			for the supper	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for supper=Theme
4	do	could	mullets = mullet	such thing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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:pg500:498.

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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