Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 12

"Perhaps he will ring it," said the people; and everybody stood very still, and waited to see what he would do.

Who acts: King, people, everybody · What happens: ring, say, stand, wait, see, do · To what, where: ring · 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 (King, people, everybody), 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 ring	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	5 ring	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ring	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 ring	aux
5	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ring	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ring	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 ring	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 people	det
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 stood	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stood	cc
14	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 stood	nsubj
15	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 still	advmod
17	still	still	ADV	_	15 stood	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 waited	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 waited	cc
20	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stood	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 see	mark
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 waited	advcl
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 do	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 do	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 do	aux
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 see	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ring in a quote	future	King	ring		perhaps property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the people				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stand	past	everybody		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wait	past	everybody not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive	everybody not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	do	would	King				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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