The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 630
In a few minutes, a lovely little coach, made of glass, with lining as soft as whipped cream and chocolate pudding, and stuffed with canary feathers, pulled out of the stable.
Who acts: lovely little coach · What happens: make, whip, stuff, pull out · To what, where: lovely little coach, stable
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 (lovely little coach), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 minutes | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minutes | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minutes | amod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 pulled | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 minutes | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 coach | det |
| 7 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 coach | amod |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 coach | amod |
| 9 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pulled | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 coach | acl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 glass | case |
| 13 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lining | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 lining | case |
| 16 | lining | lining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coach | nmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 soft | advmod |
| 18 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lining | amod |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 cream | case |
| 20 | whipped | whip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 cream | amod |
| 21 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 soft | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 pudding | cc |
| 23 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pudding | compound |
| 24 | pudding | pudding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cream | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stuffed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 stuffed | cc |
| 27 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 made | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 feathers | case |
| 29 | canary | canary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 feathers | compound |
| 30 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 stuffed | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 pulled | punct |
| 32 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 stable | case |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 out | fixed |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 stable | det |
| 36 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pulled | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | a lovely little coach with lining not said here | of glass | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | whip | participle | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | stuff | participle | with canary feathers | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with feather=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pull out | past | a lovely little coach with lining | the stable | minute | tree rules |
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:pg500:630.
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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