Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 28

They gave orders that a new rope should be put upon the bell at once,--a rope that should hang down to the ground, so that the smallest child could reach it.

Who acts: men, rope, smallest child · What happens: give, put, hang down, reach · To what, where: orders, new rope, bell, ground

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 (men, rope, smallest child), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 put	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rope	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rope	amod
7	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	nsubj:pass
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 put	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 put	aux:pass
10	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gave	advcl
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 bell	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bell	det
13	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 put	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rope	punct
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 rope	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 rope	det
19	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 hang	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 hang	aux
22	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 rope	acl:relcl
23	down	down	ADP	_	22 hang	compound:prt
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 ground	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ground	det
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hang	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 reach	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	34 reach	advmod
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 reach	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 child	det
31	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 child	amod
32	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 reach	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 reach	aux
34	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	advcl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 reach	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	men = man	orders		a rope obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
2	put	should · passive		a new rope	the bell		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon bell=Destination
3	hang down	should	a rope			to the ground	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	reach	could	the smallest child	ground			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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