The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 942
Why did I not die, who am so bad, instead of you, who are so good?
Who acts: I · What happens: not die, be
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), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 die | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 die | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 die | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 die | advmod |
| 5 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bad | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 bad | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 bad | cop |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 bad | advmod |
| 10 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 I | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 you | punct |
| 12 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 14 you | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 instead | fixed |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 die | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 good | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 good | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 good | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 good | advmod |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 you | acl:relcl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not die | past · do-support | I | instead you | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | present | bad property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | good property | 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:pg500:942.
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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