English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 47

While he was thinking what he should do, the Bells of Bow Church, which at that time were only six, began to ring, and their sound seemed to say to him:

Who acts: Dick, Bow Church, sound · What happens: think, do, be, begin, ring, seem · To what, where: six, Dick · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick, Bow Church, sound), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 thinking	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thinking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thinking	aux
4	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 Church	advcl
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thinking	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thinking	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Bells	det
11	Bells	Bell	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 Church	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Church	case
13	Bow	Bow	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Church	compound
14	Church	Church	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 began	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 six	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 six	nsubj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 time	case
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 six	obl
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 six	cop
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 six	advmod
22	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 Church	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Church	punct
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	to	to	PART	_	26 ring	mark
26	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 seemed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 seemed	cc
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 sound	nmod:poss
30	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seemed	nsubj
31	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 began	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	33 say	mark
33	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 seemed	xcomp
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 say	obl
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	Dick				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	do	should	Dick				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	is a	past	Bow Church	six		time	tree rules
4	begin	past	Bow Church				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	ring	to-infinitive	Bow Church not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	seem	past	bells's sound				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	bells's sound not said here		Dick		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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