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title: “I can’t drink it like that,” the Marionette said, making more wry f… — The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi · tree and pragmatics
description: “I can’t drink it like that,” the Marionette said, making more wry faces. Who acts: Marionette. 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 659

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“I can’t drink it like that,” the Marionette said, making more wry faces.

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**Who acts:** Marionette · **What happens:** not drink, say, make · **To what, where:** water, more wry faces · **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 (Marionette), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg500:659
# text = “I can’t drink it like that,” the Marionette said, making more wry faces.
# 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	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Marionette	Marionette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
17	wry	wry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **drink** *in a quote* | can | the Marionette *= marionette* | water |  |  |  | like that | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Marionette |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | the Marionette *not said here* | more wry faces |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset face=Product |

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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:pg500:659`.

**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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