The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 88
The richest of them begged for his living.” After choosing the name for his Marionette, Geppetto set seriously to work to make the hair, the forehead, the eyes.
Who acts: richest, Geppetto, his · What happens: beg, choose, set, make, live · To what, where: name, hair · 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 (richest, Geppetto, his), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 richest | det |
| 2 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 richest | nmod |
| 5 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 living | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 living | nmod:poss |
| 8 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 begged | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 begged | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 begged | punct |
| 11 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 choosing | mark |
| 12 | choosing | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 set | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 name | det |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 choosing | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 Marionette | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 Marionette | nmod:poss |
| 17 | Marionette | Marionette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 name | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 choosing | punct |
| 19 | Geppetto | Geppetto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 set | nsubj |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 begged | parataxis |
| 21 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 20 set | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 work | case |
| 23 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 make | mark |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 set | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hair | det |
| 27 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 make | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 forehead | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 forehead | det |
| 30 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hair | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 eyes | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 eyes | det |
| 33 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 hair | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | the richest of them | for his living | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | choose in a quote | gerund | Geppetto not said here | the name | for his Marionette | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent name=Theme for marionette=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | set in a quote | past | Geppetto | to work; seriously property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | Geppetto not said here | the hair and the forehead and the eyes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hair=Product | ||||
| 5 | live | his = he | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:pg500:88.
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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