Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 19

About two days afterward he called him up at midnight to go into the church-tower to toll the bell. "

Who acts: father · What happens: call up, go, toll · To what, where: boy, church tower, bell

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), 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	About	about	ADV	_	2 two	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 called	obl:unmarked
4	afterward	afterward	ADV	_	6 called	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	nsubj
6	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 called	compound:prt
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 midnight	case
10	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 go	mark
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 called	advcl
13	into	into	ADP	_	17 tower	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tower	det
15	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tower	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 church	punct
17	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 toll	mark
19	toll	toll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 go	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bell	det
21	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 toll	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call up speech: assert	past	father		boy		day; midnight	afterward property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	go	to-infinitive	father not said here			the church tower			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into tower=Initial_Location
3	toll	to-infinitive	father not said here	the bell					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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