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title: The richest of them begged for his living.” After choosing the name… — The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi · tree and pragmatics
description: The richest of them begged for his living.” After choosing the name for his Marionette, Geppetto set seriously to work to make the hair, the forehead, the eyes. Who acts: richest, Geppetto, his. A sentence of «The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg wit
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# The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, sentence 88

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The richest of them begged for his living.” After choosing the name for his Marionette, Geppetto set seriously to work to make the hair, the forehead, the eyes.

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**Who acts:** richest, Geppetto, his · **What happens:** beg, choose, set, make, live · **To what, where:** name, hair · **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 (richest, Geppetto, his), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg500:88
# text = The richest of them begged for his living.” After choosing the name for his Marionette, Geppetto set seriously to work to make the hair, the forehead, the eyes.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	Marionette	Marionette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
19	Geppetto	Geppetto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
21	seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the richest of them |  |  |  |  | for his living | tree rules |
| 2 | **choose** *in a quote* | gerund | Geppetto *not said here* | the name |  |  |  | for his Marionette | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent name=Theme for marionette=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **set** *in a quote* | past | Geppetto |  |  |  |  | to work; seriously *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Geppetto *not said here* | the hair and the forehead and the eyes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hair=Product |
| 5 | **live** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:pg500:88`.

**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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