Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 15

When he came to the foot of the tower, he stopped, and raised his hand.

Who acts: King · What happens: come, stop, raise · To what, where: foot, hand

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), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stopped	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 foot	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 foot	det
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 tower	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tower	det
9	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 foot	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stopped	nsubj
12	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 raised	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 raised	cc
15	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stopped	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hand	nmod:poss
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 raised	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	King		the foot of the tower	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location
2	stop	past	King			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	raise	past	King not said here	King's hand		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme

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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