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title: He could not even wait to say good-by to you.” “Did they pay for the… — The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi · tree and pragmatics
description: He could not even wait to say good-by to you.” “Did they pay for the supper?” “How could they do such a thing? Who acts: Cat, mullets. 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 498

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He could not even wait to say good-by to you.” “Did they pay for the supper?” “How could they do such a thing?

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**Who acts:** Cat, mullets · **What happens:** not wait, say, pay, do · **To what, where:** good by, you, thing · **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 (Cat, mullets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg500:498
# text = He could not even wait to say good-by to you.” “Did they pay for the supper?” “How could they do such a thing?
# 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	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
10	by	by	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
16	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
25	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
29	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	31	det:predet	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wait** | could | Cat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Cat *not said here* | good by | you |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent by=Topic to you=Recipient |
| 3 | **pay** | past · do-support | mullets *= mullet* |  |  |  |  | for the supper | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for supper=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | could | mullets *= mullet* | such thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |

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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:pg500:498`.

**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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