Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 22
After a day or two, the sexton awoke him at midnight, and bade him arise and go up into the church tower and ring the bell.
Who acts: sexton · What happens: awake, arise, go up, ring · To what, where: boy, bade, church tower, 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 awoke | obl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 two | cc |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sexton | det |
| 8 | sexton | sexton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 awoke | nsubj |
| 9 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 awoke | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 midnight | case |
| 12 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 awoke | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 arise | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 arise | cc |
| 15 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 arise | obl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bade | obj |
| 17 | arise | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 awoke | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 go | cc |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 arise | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 tower | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tower | det |
| 23 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tower | compound |
| 24 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ring | cc |
| 26 | ring | ring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 arise | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bell | det |
| 28 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ring | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the sexton | boy | day; midnight | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | |||
| 2 | arise | present | bade | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go up | present | the church tower | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | ring | infinitive | 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: «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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