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title: The donkeys galloped, the wagon rolled on smoothly, the boys slept (… — The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi · tree and pragmatics
description: The donkeys galloped, the wagon rolled on smoothly, the boys slept (Lamp-Wick snored like a dormouse) and the little, fat driver sang sleepily between his teeth. Who acts: donkeys, wagon, boys, Lamp Wick. A sentence of «The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi», a book of tales from Project Gut
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# The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 1566

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The donkeys galloped, the wagon rolled on smoothly, the boys slept (Lamp-Wick snored like a dormouse) and the little, fat driver sang sleepily between his teeth.

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**Who acts:** donkeys, wagon, boys, Lamp Wick, little fat driver · **What happens:** gallop, roll on, sleep, snore, sing · **To what, where:** teeth

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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 (donkeys, wagon, boys, Lamp Wick), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg500:1566
# text = The donkeys galloped, the wagon rolled on smoothly, the boys slept (Lamp-Wick snored like a dormouse) and the little, fat driver sang sleepily between his teeth.
# 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	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	smoothly	smoothly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
15	Lamp	Lamp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Wick	Wick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	snored	snore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	dormouse	dormouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	sleepily	sleepily	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	between	between	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gallop** | past | the donkeys |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **roll on** | past | the wagon |  |  |  |  | smoothly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sleep** | past | the boys |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **snore** | past | Lamp Wick |  |  |  |  | like a dormouse | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the little fat driver |  |  | driver's teeth |  | sleepily *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between tooth=Location |

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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:pg500:1566`.

**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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