Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 54

One hot afternoon, when no one was upon the street, the horse chanced to wander into the market place.

Who acts: one, horse · What happens: be, chance, wander · To what, where: market place

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 (one, horse), 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:pg18442:750): 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 afternoon	nummod
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 afternoon	amod
3	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 chanced	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 street	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 street	advmod
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 street	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 street	cop
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 street	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 street	det
11	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 chanced	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 horse	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 horse	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 chanced	nsubj
15	chanced	chance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 wander	mark
17	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 chanced	xcomp
18	into	into	ADP	_	21 place	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 place	det
20	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 place	compound
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wander	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 chanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	no one			upon the street	tree rules
2	chance	past	the horse		afternoon		vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	wander	to-infinitive	the horse not said here	the market place			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into place=Destination

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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