Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 177
‘I shall never learn it here as long as I live.’
Who acts: I · What happens: not learn, live · To what, where: shudder
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 (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 | _ | 5 learn | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 learn | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 learn | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 learn | advmod |
| 5 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 learn | obj |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 learn | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 long | advmod |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 learn | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 live | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 live | nsubj |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 long | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 learn | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not learn | shall | I | shudder | here | long property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||
| 2 | live | present | I | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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