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title: There he had to remain for four long, weary months. — The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi · tree and pragmatics
description: There he had to remain for four long, weary months. 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 809

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There he had to remain for four long, weary months.

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**Who acts:** Pinocchio · **What happens:** have, remain

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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:pg500:809
# text = There he had to remain for four long, weary months.
# 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	There	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Pinocchio |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remain** | to-infinitive | Pinocchio *not said here* |  |  |  | month |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:pg500:809`.

**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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