The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 651

“I want the sugar first, then I’ll drink the bitter water.” “Do you promise?” “Yes.” The Fairy gave him the sugar and Pinocchio, after chewing and swallowing it in a twinkling, said, smacking his lips: “If only sugar were medicine!

Who acts: Pinocchio, you, Fairy, sugar · What happens: want, drink, promise, give, chew, swallow · To what, where: sugar, bitter water, Pinocchio, twinkling, lips, medicine · 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 (Pinocchio, you, Fairy, sugar), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sugar	det
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 want	obj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 want	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drink	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 drink	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 drink	nsubj
10	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 drink	aux
11	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
13	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 water	amod
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drink	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 promise	punct
18	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 promise	aux
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 promise	nsubj
20	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	parataxis
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 promise	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 promise	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 Yes	punct
24	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 want	parataxis
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 Yes	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 Yes	punct
27	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Fairy	det
28	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 gave	nsubj
29	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 want	parataxis
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gave	iobj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sugar	det
32	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gave	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 said	cc
34	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 said	nsubj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 chewing	punct
36	after	after	SCONJ	_	37 chewing	mark
37	chewing	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 said	advcl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 swallowing	cc
39	swallowing	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 chewing	conj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 swallowing	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 twinkling	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 twinkling	det
43	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 swallowing	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 said	punct
45	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 gave	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 smacking	punct
47	smacking	smack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 said	advcl
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 lips	nmod:poss
49	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 smacking	obj
50	:	:	PUNCT	_	56 medicine	punct
51	“	"	PUNCT	_	56 medicine	punct
52	If	if	SCONJ	_	56 medicine	mark
53	only	only	ADV	_	56 medicine	advmod
54	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 medicine	nsubj
55	were	be	AUX	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 medicine	cop
56	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 said	ccomp
57	!	!	PUNCT	_	56 medicine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	Pinocchio	the sugar				first property	tree rules
2	drink in a quote	future	Pinocchio	the bitter water			then		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
3	promise speech: promise in a quote	present · do-support	you						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	give	past	the Fairy	the sugar	Pinocchio				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sugar=Theme
5	chew	gerund	Pinocchio not said here						vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	swallow	gerund	Pinocchio not said here	sugar		a twinkling			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	say speech: express	past	Pinocchio						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	smack	gerund	Pinocchio not said here	Pinocchio's lips					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient
9	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	sugar	medicine					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:pg500:651.

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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