English Fairy Tales, XXXI. Dick Whittington., sentence 7

_Remarks_.--If Bow Bells had pealed in the exact and accurate nineteenth century, they doubtless would have chimed

Who acts: Bow Bells · What happens: peal, chime · To what, where: Remarks, Bells

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXI. Dick Whittington.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bow Bells), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Remarks	punct
2	Remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 chimed	obl
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 pealed	punct
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	_	9 pealed	punct
5	If	if	SCONJ	_	9 pealed	mark
6	Bow	Bow	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Bells	compound
7	Bells	Bell	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 pealed	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pealed	aux
9	pealed	peal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Remarks	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	16 century	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 century	det
12	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 century	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 accurate	cc
14	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 exact	conj
15	nineteenth	nineteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 century	amod
16	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pealed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Remarks	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 chimed	nsubj
19	doubtless	doubtless	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 chimed	nsubj:pass
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 chimed	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 chimed	aux
22	chimed	chime	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peal a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Bow Bells	Remarks not said here			century		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location remark=Theme
2	chime	would · perfect · passive		Bells = bell				Remarks obl	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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: «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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