Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 7
When at last everything was ready, the people of Atri had a great holiday.
Who acts: people · What happens: be, have · To what, where: everything, great holiday
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 (people), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 ready | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 everything | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 everything | amod |
| 4 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 ready | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ready | cop |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 had | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Atri | case |
| 11 | Atri | Atri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 people | nmod |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ready | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 holiday | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 holiday | amod |
| 15 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | everything | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the people of Atri | a great holiday | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holiday=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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