--- title: Instead of returning home, come with us.” “And where will you take m… — The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi · tree and pragmatics description: Instead of returning home, come with us.” “And where will you take me?” “To the City of Simple Simons.” Pinocchio thought a while and then said firmly: “No, I don’t want to go. Who acts: you, Pinocchio, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Pinocchio, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg500:445 # text = Instead of returning home, come with us.” “And where will you take me?” “To the City of Simple Simons.” Pinocchio thought a while and then said firmly: “No, I don’t want to go. # 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 Instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 3 mark _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 returning return VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 4 home home ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 come come VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 9 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 10 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 12 And and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 where where ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 14 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 parataxis _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 19 ” " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 20 “ " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 21 To to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 parataxis _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 Simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 Simons Simon PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ 28 ” " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 29 Pinocchio Pinocchio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 35 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 36 firmly firmly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 : : PUNCT : _ 44 punct _ _ 38 “ " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ _ 39 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 44 discourse _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 41 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 42 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 44 advmod _ _ 44 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 ccomp _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 xcomp _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **return** | gerund | | | | | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come** | infinitive | | | | | | with us | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **take** | future | you | | me | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | Pinocchio | | | | while | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Pinocchio *not said here* | | | | then | firmly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | I | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. 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