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title: “Quick, Pinocchio, the monster is coming nearer!” Pinocchio swam fas… — The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi · tree and pragmatics
description: “Quick, Pinocchio, the monster is coming nearer!” Pinocchio swam faster and faster, and harder and harder. Who acts: monster, Pinocchio. A sentence of «The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 1894

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“Quick, Pinocchio, the monster is coming nearer!” Pinocchio swam faster and faster, and harder and harder.

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**Who acts:** monster, Pinocchio · **What happens:** come, swim · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg500:1894
# text = “Quick, Pinocchio, the monster is coming nearer!” Pinocchio swam faster and faster, and harder and harder.
# 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	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
2	Quick	quick	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	parataxis	_	_
10	nearer	near	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
13	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	harder	hard	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	harder	hard	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the monster |  |  |  |  | Pinocchio *vocative*; near, quick *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **swim** | past | Pinocchio |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | 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:pg500:1894`.

**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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