Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 204

‘That is all very well,’ said he, ‘but still I do not know what it is to shudder!’

Who acts: That, king, I, castle · What happens: be, say, not know · To what, where: shudder · 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 (That, king, I, castle), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 well	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 well	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 said	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 well	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 well	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 know	cc
14	still	still	ADV	_	18 know	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 know	nsubj
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 know	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 know	advmod
18	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 know	obj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 shudder	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 shudder	cop
22	to	to	PART	_	23 shudder	mark
23	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 what	acl:relcl
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	That			all, well property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not know	present · do-support	I		still		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	is a	present	castle	shudder			tree rules

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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