Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 105

‘Ah, if I could but shudder!’ said he, ‘but I shall not learn it here either.’

Who acts: king, I · What happens: say, not learn · To what, where: shudder · 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 (king, 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	_	11 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	11 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 could	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 could	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 shudder	cc
8	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 could	conj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 could	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 could	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 he	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 he	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 learn	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 learn	nsubj
17	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 learn	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 learn	advmod
19	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 learn	obj
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 learn	advmod
22	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 learn	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	king						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not learn	shall	I	shudder		here		either property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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