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title: Suddenly he saw a little cottage gleaming white as the snow among th… — The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly he saw a little cottage gleaming white as the snow among the trees of the forest. Who acts: Cat, little cottage. 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 571

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Suddenly he saw a little cottage gleaming white as the snow among the trees of the forest.

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**Who acts:** Cat, little cottage · **What happens:** see, gleam · **To what, where:** little cottage, trees

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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, little cottage), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg500:571
# text = Suddenly he saw a little cottage gleaming white as the snow among the trees of the forest.
# 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	among	among	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Cat | a little cottage |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cottage=Stimulus |
| 2 | **gleam** | gerund | a little cottage *not said here* |  |  | the trees of the forest |  | white *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=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:pg500:571`.

**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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