Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 3
A long time ago, the King of Atri bought a fine large bell, and had it hung up in a tower in the market place.
Who acts: King, bell · What happens: buy, have, hang up · To what, where: fine large bell, bell, tower
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, bell), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bought | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 time | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bought | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Atri | case |
| 9 | Atri | Atri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | nmod |
| 10 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bell | det |
| 12 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bell | amod |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bell | amod |
| 14 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bought | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bought | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | obj |
| 19 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 had | xcomp |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 hung | compound:prt |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 tower | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tower | det |
| 23 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hung | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 place | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 place | det |
| 26 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 place | compound |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hung | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 bought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | the King of Atri | a fine large bell | time | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | the King of Atri not said here | bell | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hang up | participle | bell not said here | a tower | in the market place | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tower=Location |
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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