Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 62

He pulled at it, and the great bell above him began to ring.

Who acts: horse, great bell · What happens: pull, begin, ring

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 (horse, great bell), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulled	nsubj
2	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulled	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bell	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bell	amod
9	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 began	nsubj
10	above	above	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bell	nmod
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pulled	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 ring	mark
14	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	pull	past	horse	at mouth	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
2	begin	past	the great bell above horse		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	ring	to-infinitive	the great bell above horse not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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