Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 18

The father was very glad, because he thought that it would do the boy good; so the sexton took him home to ring the bells.

Who acts: father, sexton · What happens: be, think, do, take, ring · To what, where: boy, father, bells · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, sexton), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 glad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 glad	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 glad	advmod
5	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 thought	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 glad	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 do	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 thought	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 do	obj
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 boy	amod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 took	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sexton	det
20	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	nsubj
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 glad	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 took	obj
23	home	home	ADV	_	21 took	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 ring	mark
25	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 took	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bells	det
27	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 ring	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the father			glad property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	father				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	do	would	sexton	the boy			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality
4	take	past	the sexton		father	home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
5	ring	to-infinitive	the sexton not said here	the bells			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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