--- title: “I want the sugar first, then I’ll drink the bitter water.” “Do you… — The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi · tree and pragmatics description: “I want the sugar first, then I’ll drink the bitter water.” “Do you promise?” “Yes.” The Fairy gave him the sugar and Pinocchio, after chewing and swallowing it in a twinkling, said, smacking his lips: “If only sugar were medicine! Who acts: Pinocchio, you, Fairy, sugar. 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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 (Pinocchio, you, Fairy, sugar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg500:651 # text = “I want the sugar first, then I’ll drink the bitter water.” “Do you promise?” “Yes.” The Fairy gave him the sugar and Pinocchio, after chewing and swallowing it in a twinkling, said, smacking his lips: “If only sugar were medicine! # 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 `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 16 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 17 “ " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 18 Do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 promise promise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 21 ? ? PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 22 ” " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 23 “ " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ 26 ” " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 27 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 iobj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 34 Pinocchio Pinocchio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 after after SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 37 chewing chew VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 45 advcl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 swallowing swallow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 conj _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 twinkling twinkling NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 smacking smack VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 45 advcl _ _ 48 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obj _ _ 50 : : PUNCT : _ 56 punct _ _ 51 “ " PUNCT `` _ 56 punct _ _ 52 If if SCONJ IN _ 56 mark _ _ 53 only only ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 54 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nsubj _ _ 55 were be AUX VBD Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 56 cop _ _ 56 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 ccomp _ _ 57 ! ! PUNCT . _ 56 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** *in a quote* | present | Pinocchio | the sugar | | | | first *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **drink** *in a quote* | future | Pinocchio | the bitter water | | | then | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **give** | past | the Fairy | the sugar | Pinocchio | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sugar=Theme | | 5 | **chew** | gerund | Pinocchio *not said here* | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **swallow** | gerund | Pinocchio *not said here* | sugar | | a twinkling | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 7 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Pinocchio | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **smack** | gerund | Pinocchio *not said here* | Pinocchio's lips | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient | | 9 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | sugar | medicine | | | | | tree rules | 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. Sentence `gutenberg:pg500:651`. **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/). - ← previous: [The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo…, 642](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg500/642/) - next →: [The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo…, 659](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg500/659/) - ↑ back to [the tale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg500/)