Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 100

Then the youth went next morning to the king, and said: ‘If it be allowed, I will willingly watch three nights in the haunted castle.’

Who acts: youth, I · What happens: go, say, allow, watch, haunt · To what, where: castle, haunted castle · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (youth, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 morning	amod
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl:unmarked
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 king	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 watch	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 watch	punct
15	If	if	SCONJ	_	18 allowed	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 allowed	nsubj:pass
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 allowed	aux:pass
18	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 watch	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 allowed	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 watch	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 watch	aux
22	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	23 watch	advmod
23	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 nights	nummod
25	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 watch	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 castle	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 castle	det
28	haunted	haunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 castle	amod
29	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 watch	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the youth			then; morning	to the king	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the youth not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	allow a condition, not said to happen	infinitive · passive		castle				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
4	watch	future	I		the haunted castle	night	willingly property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in castle=Location
5	haunt	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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