Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 202

My dead cousin was here, and a bearded man came and showed me a great deal of money down below, but no one told me what it was to shudder.’

Who acts: dead cousin, bearded man, one, cousin · What happens: be, come, show, tell, deal · To what, where: great deal, me, shudder, money · 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 (dead cousin, bearded man, one, cousin), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cousin	nmod:poss
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cousin	amod
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 here	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 here	cop
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	bearded	bearded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 showed	cc
13	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 showed	iobj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 deal	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 deal	amod
17	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 showed	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 money	case
19	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 deal	nmod
20	down	down	ADV	_	21 below	advmod
21	below	below	ADV	_	13 showed	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 told	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 told	cc
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 one	det
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 told	nsubj
26	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	parataxis
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 told	iobj
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 told	obj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 shudder	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 shudder	cop
31	to	to	PART	_	32 shudder	mark
32	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 what	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 told	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	My dead cousin			here property	tree rules
2	come	past	a bearded man				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	show	past	a bearded man not said here	a great deal of money	me	below property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient deal=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	past	no one		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Topic
5	is a	past	cousin	shudder			tree rules
6	deal			money			nom deal «act transitive»: of=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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