The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 865

It was the owner of the field, who was coming on tiptoes to see if, by chance, he had caught the Weasels which had been eating his chickens.

Who acts: Serpent, owner, father, Weasels · What happens: be, come, see, catch, eat · To what, where: owner, tiptoes, Weasels, chickens

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 (Serpent, owner, father, Weasels), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 owner	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 owner	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 owner	det
4	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 field	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 field	det
7	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 owner	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 coming	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 coming	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 coming	aux
11	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 owner	acl:relcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 tiptoes	case
13	tiptoes	tiptoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 coming	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 coming	advcl
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 caught	mark
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 if	punct
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 chance	case
19	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 caught	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 chance	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 caught	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 caught	aux
23	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 see	ccomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Weasels	det
25	Weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 caught	obj
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 eating	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 eating	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 eating	aux
29	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 Weasels	acl:relcl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 chickens	nmod:poss
31	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 eating	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 owner	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Serpent	the owner		of the field	tree rules
2	come	past · progressive	the owner		tiptoes		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tiptoe=Location
3	see	to-infinitive	the owner not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	catch a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	father	the Weasels		by chance	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weasel=Theme
5	eat	past · perfect · progressive	the Weasels	father's chickens			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=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:pg500:865.

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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