The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 935
He became terribly frightened and, running as fast as he could, he finally came to the spot where it had once stood.
Who acts: father, spot · What happens: become, run, come, stand · To what, where: spot
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 (father, spot), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 became | nsubj |
| 2 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 4 frightened | advmod |
| 4 | frightened | frighten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 became | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 running | punct |
| 7 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 came | advcl |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 fast | advmod |
| 9 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 running | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 could | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 could | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 fast | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 running | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 15 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 became | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 spot | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 spot | det |
| 19 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 stood | advmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stood | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 stood | aux |
| 23 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 stood | advmod |
| 24 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 spot | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | father | frighten property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | father not said here | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | father | the spot | finally property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to spot=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | stand | past · perfect | spot | once property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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:pg500:935.
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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