Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 24

The lower part of it was un-twist-ed; some of the strands were broken; it became so short that only a tall man could reach it.

Who acts: lower part, part, tall man · What happens: be, break, become, reach · To what, where: some, part

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 (lower part, part, tall man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 part	det
2	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 part	amod
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 un-twist-ed	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 part	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 un-twist-ed	cop
7	un-twist-ed	un-twist-ed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 broken	punct
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 broken	nsubj:pass
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 strands	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 strands	det
12	strands	strand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 some	nmod
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 broken	aux:pass
14	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 un-twist-ed	parataxis
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 became	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 became	nsubj
17	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 un-twist-ed	conj
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 short	advmod
19	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 became	xcomp
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 reach	mark
21	only	only	ADV	_	24 man	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reach	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 reach	aux
26	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 short	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 reach	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 un-twist-ed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lower part of place		un-twist-ed property	tree rules
2	break	past · passive		some		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	become	past	part		short property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	reach	could	a tall man	part		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=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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