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title: They gave orders that a new rope should be put upon the bell at once… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: They gave orders that a new rope should be put upon the bell at once,--a rope that should hang down to the ground, so that the smallest child could reach it. Who acts: men, rope, smallest child. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Bell of Atri., with its dependency tree
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 28

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They gave orders that a new rope should be put upon the bell at once,--a rope that should hang down to the ground, so that the smallest child could reach it.

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**Who acts:** men, rope, smallest child · **What happens:** give, put, hang down, reach · **To what, where:** orders, new rope, bell, ground

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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 (men, rope, smallest child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:25:28
# text = They gave orders that a new rope should be put upon the bell at once,--a rope that should hang down to the ground, so that the smallest child could reach it.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
32	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | men *= man* | orders |  |  |  | a rope *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | should · passive |  | a new rope |  | the bell |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon bell=Destination |
| 3 | **hang down** | should | a rope |  |  |  |  | to the ground | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **reach** | could | the smallest child | ground |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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.

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**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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