Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 162

The third night he sat down again on his bench and said quite sadly: ‘If I could but shudder.’

Who acts: king · What happens: sit down, say · To what, where: bench · 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), 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	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 sat	compound:prt
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 bench	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bench	nmod:poss
10	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 sadly	advmod
14	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 could	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 could	punct
17	If	if	SCONJ	_	19 could	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 could	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 shudder	cc
21	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 could	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	king			king's bench	again; night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	king not said here					sadly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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