Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 30

They would have to send across the mountains for one, and it would be many days before it could be brought.

Who acts: orders, child · What happens: have, send, be, bring · To what, where: mountains, many days, 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 (orders, 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	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 send	mark
5	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 mountains	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mountains	det
8	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 send	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 one	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 send	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 days	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 days	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 days	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 days	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 days	cop
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 days	amod
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obl
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 brought	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 brought	nsubj:pass
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 brought	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 brought	aux:pass
22	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 have	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	would	orders = order				tree rules
2	send	to-infinitive	orders = order not said here		the mountains	for one	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	would	child	many days			tree rules
4	bring	could · passive		child			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=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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