--- title: On the road I met two Assassins dressed in black coal sacks, who sai… — The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi · tree and pragmatics description: On the road I met two Assassins dressed in black coal sacks, who said to me, ‘Your money or your life!’ and I said, ‘I haven’t any money’; for, you see, I had put the money under my tongue. Who acts: I, two Assassins, you. 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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 (I, two Assassins, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg500:685 # text = On the road I met two Assassins dressed in black coal sacks, who said to me, ‘Your money or your life!’ and I said, ‘I haven’t any money’; for, you see, I had put the money under my tongue. # 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 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 Assassins assassin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 coal coal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 sacks sack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 20 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 ccomp _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 25 ! ! PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ 26 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ _ 34 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 35 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 36 det _ _ 36 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 39 for for SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 parataxis _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 44 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 49 under under ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 51 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | past | I | two Assassins | | the road | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assassin=Co-Agent | | 2 | **dress** | participle | | two Assassins *not said here* | | black coal sacks | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | two Assassins | | me | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **have** | present | I | any money | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | | 6 | **see** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **put** | past · perfect | I | the money | | my tongue | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent money=Theme under tongue=Destination | 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. 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