Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 33
"Let me fix it for you," said a man who stood by.
Who acts: man · What happens: let, fix, say, stand by · To what, where: man, child · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg18442:731): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fix | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 fix | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 man | acl:relcl |
| 15 | by | by | ADV | _ | 14 stood | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | a man = man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fix in a quote | infinitive | a man = man not said here | child | for you | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Product for you=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | stand by | past | a man | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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