Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 9

It was a very pretty bell, and was, pol-ished until it looked almost as bright and yellow as the sun.

Who acts: child · What happens: be, look · To what, where: pretty 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 (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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bell	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bell	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bell	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 pretty	advmod
5	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bell	amod
6	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ished	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ished	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ished	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ished	punct
11	pol	pol	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ished	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 pol	punct
13	ished	ish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bell	conj
14	until	until	SCONJ	_	16 looked	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 looked	nsubj
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ished	advcl
17	almost	almost	ADV	_	19 bright	advmod
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 bright	case
19	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 looked	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 yellow	cc
21	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bright	conj
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 sun.	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sun.	det
24	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looked	obl

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	child	a pretty bell		tree rules
2	is	past	child not said here		ish property	tree rules
3	look	past	child		as the sun.; bright property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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