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title: “He is rude, lazy, a runaway.” Pinocchio hid his face under the shee… — The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi · tree and pragmatics
description: “He is rude, lazy, a runaway.” Pinocchio hid his face under the sheets. Who acts: 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 642

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“He is rude, lazy, a runaway.” Pinocchio hid his face under the sheets.

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**Who acts:** Pinocchio · **What happens:** be, hide · **To what, where:** face, sheets · **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 (Pinocchio), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg500:642
# text = “He is rude, lazy, a runaway.” Pinocchio hid his face under the sheets.
# 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	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	runaway	runaway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Pinocchio |  |  |  |  | rude *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* |  | Pinocchio *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hide** | past | Pinocchio | Pinocchio's face |  | the sheets |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent face=Patient under sheet=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:pg500:642`.

**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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