The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 18

After a few days he woke him at midnight, and bade him rise and climb into the tower and toll.

Who acts: father · What happens: wake, rise, climb · To what, where: sexton, bade, tower

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 (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	After	after	ADP	_	4 days	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 days	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 woke	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 woke	nsubj
6	woke	wake	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 woke	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 midnight	case
9	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 woke	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rise	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rise	cc
12	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rise	obl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bade	obj
14	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 woke	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 climb	cc
16	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 rise	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 tower	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tower	det
19	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 climb	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 toll	cc
21	toll	toll	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tower	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 woke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	wake	past	father	sexton		day; midnight	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	rise	present		bade			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	climb	present			the tower and toll		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tower=Destination

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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