Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 4
A long rope that reached almost to the ground was fas-tened to the bell.
Who acts: long rope · What happens: reach, be, ten · To what, where: fas
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 (long 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rope | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rope | amod |
| 3 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fas | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rope | acl:relcl |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 9 ground | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fas | cop |
| 11 | fas | fa | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 fas | punct |
| 13 | tened | ten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 fas | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 bell | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bell | det |
| 16 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tened | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fas | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | a long rope | to the ground | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a long rope | fas | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ten | participle | fas not said here | to the bell | tree rules |
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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