Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 81

But the youth said, "If it were ever so difficult I would at once learn it; for that reason I left home"; and he never let the host have any peace till he told him that not far off stood an enchanted castle, where any one might soon learn to shiver if he would watch there three nights.

Who acts: youth, host, one · What happens: say, be, learn, leave, not let, have · To what, where: sin, reason, peace, youth, enchanted castle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, host, one), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 difficult	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 difficult	punct
7	If	if	SCONJ	_	12 difficult	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 difficult	expl
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 difficult	cop
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 difficult	advmod
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 difficult	advmod
12	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 would	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 difficult	aux
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 learn	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 learn	advmod
17	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 learn	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 reason	case
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 reason	det
22	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ;	obl
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 left	nsubj
24	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 reason	acl:relcl
25	home	home	ADV	_	24 left	advmod
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 left	punct
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 let	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 let	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 let	nsubj
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 let	advmod
31	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 host	det
33	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 have	nsubj
34	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 let	ccomp
35	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	36 peace	det
36	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 have	obj
37	till	till	SCONJ	_	39 told	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 told	nsubj
39	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 let	advcl
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 told	iobj
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 stood	mark
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 far	advmod
43	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 off	advmod
44	off	off	ADV	_	45 stood	advmod
45	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 told	advcl
46	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 castle	det
47	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 castle	amod
48	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 stood	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 learn	punct
50	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	55 learn	advmod
51	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	52 one	det
52	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 learn	nsubj
53	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 learn	aux
54	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	55 learn	advmod
55	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 castle	conj
56	to	to	PART	_	57 shiver	mark
57	shiver	shiver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 learn	xcomp
58	if	if	SCONJ	_	61 watch	mark
59	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 watch	nsubj
60	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 watch	aux
61	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 shiver	advcl
62	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	61 watch	advmod
63	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	64 nights	nummod
64	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 watch	obj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the youth						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	would · past					ever	difficult property	tree rules
3	learn in a quote	infinitive		sin				once property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	leave in a quote	past	the youth = youth	that reason not said here				home property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
5	not let	past	youth						tree rules
6	have	present	the host	any peace					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient
7	tell speech: assert	past	host		youth				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
8	stand	past	host not said here	a enchanted castle				off property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus
9	enchant	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
10	learn	might	any one					soon property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
11	shiver	to-infinitive	any one not said here						vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
12	watch a condition, not said to happen	would	host			there	night		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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