Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 21

The sexton therefore took him into his house, and he had to ring the church bell.

Who acts: sexton · What happens: take, have, ring · To what, where: boy, house, church bell

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 sexton	det
2	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	4 took	advmod
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 house	nmod:poss
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 ring	mark
14	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bell	det
16	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bell	compound
17	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ring	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the sexton	boy	sexton's house	therefore property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into house=Destination
2	have	past	sexton				tree rules
3	ring	to-infinitive	sexton not said here	the church 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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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