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title: The day promised to be a very gay and happy one, but-- Unluckily, in… — The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi · tree and pragmatics
description: The day promised to be a very gay and happy one, but-- Unluckily, in a Marionette’s life there’s always a BUT which is apt to spoil everything. Who acts: day, BUT. A sentence of «The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 1455

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The day promised to be a very gay and happy one, but-- Unluckily, in a Marionette’s life there’s always a BUT which is apt to spoil everything.

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**Who acts:** day, BUT · **What happens:** promise, be, spoil · **To what, where:** gay one, life, everything

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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 (day, BUT), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg500:1455
# text = The day promised to be a very gay and happy one, but-- Unluckily, in a Marionette’s life there’s always a BUT which is apt to spoil everything.
# source = Project Gutenberg (public domain in the USA), book id in sent_id
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	Unluckily	unluckily	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	Marionette	marionette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	_	23	expl	_	_
23	’s	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	26	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	BUT	but	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	apt	apt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	spoil	spoil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	31	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the day |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the day *not said here* | a gay one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | present | a BUT |  |  | Marionette's life; there |  | unluckily *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in life=Location |
| 4 | **is** | present | a BUT |  |  |  |  | apt *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **spoil** | to-infinitive | a BUT *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:pg500:1455`.

**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.3/).

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