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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 (father, spot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg500:935 # text = He became terribly frightened and, running as fast as he could, he finally came to the spot where it had once stood. # 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 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 terribly terribly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 frightened frighten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 8 as as ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 finally finally ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 24 advmod _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 24 advmod _ _ 24 stood stand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 acl:relcl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | father | | | | | frighten *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **run** | gerund | father *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **come** | past | father | | | the spot | | finally *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to spot=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **stand** | past · perfect | spot | | | | | once *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:pg500:935`. **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…, 865](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg500/865/) - next →: [The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo…, 942](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg500/942/) - ↑ back to [the tale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg500/)