Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 137

The second night he again went up into the old castle, sat down by the fire, and once more began his old song: ‘If I could but shudder!’

Who acts: other · What happens: go up, sit down, begin, sing · To what, where: old castle, old song

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 (other), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
5	again	again	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 castle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 castle	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 castle	amod
11	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	parataxis
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 sat	compound:prt
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 fire	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fire	det
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 began	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 began	cc
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 began	advmod
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 began	advmod
22	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sat	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 song	nmod:poss
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 song	amod
25	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 began	obj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 could	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 could	punct
28	If	if	SCONJ	_	30 could	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 could	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 went	advcl
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 shudder	cc
32	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 could	conj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 could	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	other		the old castle	again; night		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	sit down	past					by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
3	begin	past		other's old song			once property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality
4	sing		other					nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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