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title: A long time ago, the King of Atri bought a fine large bell, and had… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: A long time ago, the King of Atri bought a fine large bell, and had it hung up in a tower in the market place. Who acts: King, bell. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Bell of Atri., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 3

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A long time ago, the King of Atri bought a fine large bell, and had it hung up in a tower in the market place.

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**Who acts:** King, bell · **What happens:** buy, have, hang up · **To what, where:** fine large bell, bell, tower

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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 (King, bell), 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:pg18442:25:3
# text = A long time ago, the King of Atri bought a fine large bell, and had it hung up in a tower in the market place.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Atri	Atri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | past | the King of Atri | a fine large bell |  |  | time |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | the King of Atri *not said here* | bell |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hang up** | participle | bell *not said here* |  |  | a tower |  | in the market place | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tower=Location |

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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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