The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 640
I have known him a long time!” Pinocchio, who until then had been very quiet, shuddered so hard that the bed shook.
Who acts: I, Pinocchio, bed · What happens: know, be, shudder, shake · To what, where: coach · 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 (I, Pinocchio, bed), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 known | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 known | aux |
| 3 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 known | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 known | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 known | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 known | punct |
| 10 | Pinocchio | Pinocchio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 shuddered | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 quiet | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 quiet | nsubj |
| 13 | until | until | ADP | _ | 14 then | case |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 quiet | obl |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 quiet | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 quiet | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 quiet | advmod |
| 18 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Pinocchio | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 quiet | punct |
| 20 | shuddered | shudder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 known | parataxis |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 hard | advmod |
| 22 | hard | hard | ADV | _ | 20 shuddered | advmod |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 shook | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 shook | det |
| 25 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shook | nsubj |
| 26 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 hard | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · perfect | I | coach | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | past · perfect | Pinocchio | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shudder in a quote | past | Pinocchio | hard property | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | shake in a quote | past | bed | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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:pg500:640.
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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