The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 29

He traveled as far as Holloway, and there sat down on a stone to consider what course he should take; but while he was thus ruminating, Bow bells, of which there were only six, began to ring; and he thought their sounds addressed him in this manner:

Who acts: puss, six, sounds · What happens: travel, sit down, consider, take, ruminate, be · To what, where: stone, course, Bow bells, puss, manner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (puss, six, sounds), 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 traveled	nsubj
2	traveled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 traveled	advmod
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 Holloway	case
6	Holloway	Holloway	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 traveled	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sat	cc
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 sat	advmod
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 traveled	conj
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 sat	compound:prt
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 stone	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stone	det
14	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 consider	mark
16	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sat	advcl
17	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	18 course	det
18	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 consider	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 take	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 take	aux
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 course	acl:relcl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 ruminating	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 ruminating	cc
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 ruminating	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ruminating	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 ruminating	aux
27	thus	thus	ADV	_	28 ruminating	advmod
28	ruminating	ruminate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 traveled	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bells	punct
30	Bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bells	compound
31	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 ruminating	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 were	punct
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 which	case
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 were	obl
35	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	36 were	expl
36	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 ruminating	parataxis
37	only	only	ADV	_	38 six	advmod
38	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 were	nsubj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 began	punct
40	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 were	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 ring	mark
42	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 began	xcomp
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 thought	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 thought	cc
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 thought	nsubj
46	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 traveled	parataxis
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 sounds	nmod:poss
48	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 addressed	nsubj
49	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 thought	ccomp
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 addressed	obj
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 manner	case
52	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 manner	det
53	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 addressed	obl
54	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 traveled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	travel	past	puss				as Holloway; far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit down	past	puss not said here			a stone; there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location
3	consider	to-infinitive	puss not said here	what course				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent course=Attribute
4	take	should	puss	what course not said here				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Theme
5	ruminate	past · progressive	puss	Bow bells			thus property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	be	past	six			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	begin	past	six not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	ring	to-infinitive	six not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	think speech: other	past	puss					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
10	address	past	bells's sounds		puss	this manner		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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