Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of William Tell., sentence 22
Then, without another word, Tell fitted the arrow to his bow.
Who acts: you · What happens: tell, fit · To what, where: arrow, bow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of William Tell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 Tell | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | without | without | ADP | _ | 5 word | case |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 word | det |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Tell | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 word | punct |
| 7 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | fitted | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Tell | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 arrow | det |
| 10 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fitted | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 bow | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bow | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fitted | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | then | without another word | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | fit | past | the arrow | to boy's bow goal | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent arrow=Patient to bow=Goal |
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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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