Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 2

So, if anything was to be done, the elder had at all times to do it; but sometimes the father would call him to fetch something in the dead of night, and perhaps the way led through the churchyard or by a dismal place, and then he used to answer, "No, father, I cannot go there, I am afraid," for he was a coward.

Who acts: elder, father, way · What happens: do, have, call, fetch, lead, use · To what, where: anything, elder, him, something, dead, churchyard · 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 (elder, father, way), 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	So	so	ADV	_	12 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 done	mark
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 done	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 done	aux:pass
6	to	to	PART	_	8 done	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 done	aux:pass
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 had	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 done	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 elder	det
11	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 times	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 times	det
15	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 do	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 call	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 call	cc
21	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	25 call	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 father	det
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 call	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 call	aux
25	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	parataxis
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 call	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 fetch	mark
28	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 call	advcl
29	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 fetch	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 dead	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dead	det
32	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fetch	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 night	case
34	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dead	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 led	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 led	cc
37	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	40 led	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 way	det
39	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 led	nsubj
40	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 had	conj
41	through	through	ADP	_	43 churchyard	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 churchyard	det
43	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 led	obl
44	or	or	CCONJ	_	48 place	cc
45	by	by	ADP	_	48 place	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 place	det
47	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 place	amod
48	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 churchyard	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 used	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 used	cc
51	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	53 used	advmod
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 used	nsubj
53	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 led	parataxis
54	to	to	PART	_	55 answer	mark
55	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 used	xcomp
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 father	punct
57	"	"	PUNCT	_	60 father	punct
58	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	60 father	discourse
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 No	punct
60	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 answer	advcl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 go	punct
62	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	65 go	nsubj
63	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	65 go	aux
64	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	65 go	advmod
65	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 used	conj
66	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	65 go	advmod
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 afraid	punct
68	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	70 afraid	nsubj
69	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	70 afraid	cop
70	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 go	advcl
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	77 coward	punct
72	"	"	PUNCT	_	77 coward	punct
73	for	for	ADP	_	77 coward	case
74	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	77 coward	nsubj
75	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	77 coward	cop
76	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	77 coward	det
77	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 afraid	ccomp
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		anything					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	have	past	the elder				time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	do	to-infinitive	the elder not said here	elder					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	call	would	the father		him = he			sometimes property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	fetch	to-infinitive	the father not said here	something		the dead			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
6	lead	past	the way			the churchyard or a dismal place		perhaps property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through churchyard=Destination
7	use	past	father				then		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	father not said here						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	not go in a quote	can	father			there			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	is in a quote	present	father					afraid property	tree rules
11	is	past	father					for a coward	tree rules

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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