Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 182

‘If I am to die, I shall have to have a say in it.’

Who acts: I · What happens: die, have · To what, where: say

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	_	10 have	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 am	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 am	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 have	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 die	mark
6	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 am	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 am	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
9	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 have	mark
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 have	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 say	det
14	say	say	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 have	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	die	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	have	shall	I			tree rules
3	have	to-infinitive	I not said here	a say	say	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent say=Patient

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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