Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 10

"How we should like to hear it ring!" they said.

Who acts: we, men · What happens: like, hear, say · To what, where: child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Bell of Atri.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, men), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 like	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hear	mark
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 like	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hear	obj
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hear	obj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	like in a quote	should	we		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hear not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	child	tree rules
3	say speech: express	past	men = man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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