Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 5
The smallest child could ring the bell by pulling upon this rope.
Who acts: smallest child · What happens: ring, pull · To what, where: bell
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 (smallest 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 2 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 child | amod |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ring | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 ring | aux |
| 5 | ring | ring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bell | det |
| 7 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ring | obj |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 pulling | mark |
| 9 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 ring | advcl |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 rope | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 rope | det |
| 12 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pulling | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | could | the smallest child | the bell | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pull | gerund | the smallest child not said here | upon this rope | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=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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