The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 571
Suddenly he saw a little cottage gleaming white as the snow among the trees of the forest.
Who acts: Cat, little cottage · What happens: see, gleam · To what, where: little cottage, trees
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, little cottage), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cottage | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cottage | amod |
| 6 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cottage | acl |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gleaming | xcomp |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 snow | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 snow | det |
| 11 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 white | obl |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 trees | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trees | det |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gleaming | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 forest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forest | det |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trees | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Cat | a little cottage | suddenly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cottage=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | gleam | gerund | a little cottage not said here | the trees of the forest | white property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=Location |
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:pg500:571.
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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