Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 20

The father was glad to do it, for he thought: ‘It will train the boy a little.’

Who acts: father, shudder · What happens: be, do, think, train · To what, where: shudder, boy · 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 (father, shudder), 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	2 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 glad	cop
4	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 glad	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 thought	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	advcl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 train	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 train	punct
14	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 train	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 train	aux
16	train	train	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 thought	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boy	det
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 train	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 little	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 train	obl:unmarked
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 glad	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the father		glad property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the father not said here	shudder		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	past	father			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	train	future	shudder	the boy	a little obl:unmarked	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=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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