The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 685

On the road I met two Assassins dressed in black coal sacks, who said to me, ‘Your money or your life!’ and I said, ‘I haven’t any money’; for, you see, I had put the money under my tongue.

Who acts: I, two Assassins, you · What happens: meet, dress, say, not have, see, put · To what, where: two Assassins, road, black coal sacks, me, money, tongue · 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, two Assassins, you), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 road	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 road	det
3	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 met	nsubj
5	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 Assassins	nummod
7	Assassins	assassin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 met	obj
8	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 Assassins	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 sacks	case
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sacks	amod
11	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sacks	compound
12	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dressed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Assassins	acl:relcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 money	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 money	punct
20	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 money	nmod:poss
21	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	ccomp
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 life	cc
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 life	nmod:poss
24	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 money	conj
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 money	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 money	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 said	nsubj
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 met	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 have	punct
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	33 have	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 have	nsubj
33	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 said	ccomp
34	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 have	advmod
35	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	36 money	det
36	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 have	obj
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	33 have	punct
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 put	punct
39	for	for	SCONJ	_	42 see	mark
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 see	punct
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 see	nsubj
42	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 put	parataxis
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 see	punct
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 put	nsubj
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 put	aux
46	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 said	advcl
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 money	det
48	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 put	obj
49	under	under	ADP	_	51 tongue	case
50	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 tongue	nmod:poss
51	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 put	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	meet	past	I	two Assassins		the road	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assassin=Co-Agent
2	dress	participle		two Assassins not said here		black coal sacks	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	two Assassins		me		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	past	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not have	present	I	any money			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
6	see	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	put	past · perfect	I	the money		my tongue	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent money=Theme under tongue=Destination

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:pg500:685.

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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