The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 28
Thereupon he tolled the bell, went home to bed without saying a word, and fell asleep.
Who acts: sexton · What happens: toll, go, say, fall · To what, where: bell, bed, word · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 tolled | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tolled | nsubj |
| 3 | tolled | toll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bell | det |
| 5 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tolled | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tolled | conj |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 bed | case |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 saying | mark |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 went | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 word | det |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saying | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fell | cc |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tolled | conj |
| 18 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fell | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toll | past | sexton | the bell | thereupon property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | sexton not said here | bed | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | sexton not said here | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | sexton not said here | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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