Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 35
"This will do for a rope," he said; and he climbed up, and fastened it to the bell.
Who acts: This, rope · What happens: do, say, climb up, fasten · To what, where: vine · 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 (This, rope), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 rope | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rope | det |
| 7 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 climbed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 climbed | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 climbed | nsubj |
| 15 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 climbed | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fastened | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fastened | cc |
| 19 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 climbed | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fastened | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 bell | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bell | det |
| 23 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fastened | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | future | This | for a rope | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | rope | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | climb up | past | rope | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fasten | past | rope not said here | vine | to the bell | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient to bell=Co-Patient |
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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