The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 17
And so the sexton took him into his house, and his duty was to toll the bell.
Who acts: sexton, duty · What happens: take, be · To what, where: father, house
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out 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, duty), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 took | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 took | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sexton | det |
| 4 | sexton | sexton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 toll | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 toll | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 duty | nmod:poss |
| 13 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 toll | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 toll | cop |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 toll | mark |
| 16 | toll | toll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 took | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bell | det |
| 18 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 toll | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the sexton | father | father's house | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into house=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | father's duty | toll property | 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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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