Fifty Famous Stories Retold, III. the Venture., sentence 24

As he sat there very sad, and wondering which way he should go, he heard the bells on Bow Church, far away, ringing out a merry chime.

Who acts: Dick · What happens: sit, wonder, go, hear, ring out · To what, where: way, bells, Bow Church, merry chime

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, III. the Venture.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 sat	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	advcl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 sad	advmod
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sat	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wondering	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wondering	cc
9	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 sat	advcl
10	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wondering	obj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 go	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 way	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bells	det
19	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 heard	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 Church	case
21	Bow	Bow	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Church	compound
22	Church	Church	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 bells	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 away	punct
24	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 away	advmod
25	away	away	ADV	_	17 heard	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ringing	punct
27	ringing	ring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 heard	advcl
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 ringing	compound:prt
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 chime	det
30	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 chime	amod
31	chime	chime	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ringing	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Dick		there	sad property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wonder speech: ask	gerund	Dick not said here	which way			tree rules
3	go	should	Dick	which way not said here			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
4	hear	past	Dick	the bells	Bow Church	away property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bell=Stimulus
5	ring out	gerund	Dick not said here	a merry chime			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chime=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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