Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 27
It could not ring the bell to let us know it."
Who acts: child, us · What happens: not ring, let, know · To what, where: bell, us, child
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 (child, us), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ring | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ring | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 ring | advmod |
| 4 | ring | ring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bell | det |
| 6 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ring | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 let | mark |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ring | advcl |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 know | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ring | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ring | could | child | the bell | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | child not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | infinitive | us not said here | child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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