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title: The only relief poor Pinocchio had was to yawn; and he certainly did… — The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi · tree and pragmatics
description: The only relief poor Pinocchio had was to yawn; and he certainly did yawn, such a big yawn that his mouth stretched out to the tips of his ears. Who acts: poor Pinocchio, only relief, Pinocchio, mouth. A sentence of «The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi», a book of tales from Project Gutenb
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# The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 173

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The only relief poor Pinocchio had was to yawn; and he certainly did yawn, such a big yawn that his mouth stretched out to the tips of his ears.

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**Who acts:** poor Pinocchio, only relief, Pinocchio, mouth · **What happens:** have, be, yawn, stretch out · **To what, where:** only relief, big yawn

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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 (poor Pinocchio, only relief, Pinocchio, mouth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg500:173
# text = The only relief poor Pinocchio had was to yawn; and he certainly did yawn, such a big yawn that his mouth stretched out to the tips of his ears.
# 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	3	det	_	_
2	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	yawn	yawn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	yawn	yawn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	yawn	yawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	tips	tip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | poor Pinocchio | the only relief *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relief=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the only relief |  |  |  |  | yawn *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **yawn** | past · do-support | Pinocchio | such big yawn |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yawn=Theme |
| 4 | **stretch out** | past | Pinocchio's mouth | such big yawn *not said here* |  |  |  | to the tips of Pinocchio's ears *result* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent yawn=Patient to tip=Result |

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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:pg500:173`.

**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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