Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 10

‘Well, father,’ he replied, ‘I am quite willing to learn something--indeed, if it could but be managed, I should like to learn how to shudder.

Who acts: father, I · What happens: reply, be, learn, manage, like · To what, where: something, salt

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 (father, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 father	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 replied	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 replied	nsubj
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 willing	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 willing	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 willing	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 willing	cop
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 willing	advmod
14	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 replied	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 learn	mark
16	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 willing	xcomp
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 learn	obj
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 indeed	punct
19	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	16 learn	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 like	punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 managed	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 managed	nsubj:pass
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 managed	aux
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 managed	cc
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 managed	aux:pass
26	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 like	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 managed	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 like	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 like	aux
30	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 learn	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 learn	mark
32	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 like	xcomp
33	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	34 to	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 shudder	case
35	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 learn	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	father			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	I		willing property	tree rules
3	learn	to-infinitive	I not said here	something	indeed property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
4	manage a condition, not said to happen	could · passive		salt		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	like	should	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	learn not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		to shudder	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: 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: «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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