Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 207
Her waiting-maid said: ‘I will find a cure for him; he shall soon learn what it is to shudder.’
Who acts: waiting maid, I, maid · What happens: say, find, learn, be · To what, where: cure, 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 (waiting maid, I, maid), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 maid | nmod:poss |
| 2 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 maid | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 waiting | punct |
| 4 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 find | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 find | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 find | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 find | aux |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cure | det |
| 12 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 find | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cure | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 learn | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 learn | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 learn | aux |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 learn | advmod |
| 19 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 find | conj |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 shudder | nsubj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 shudder | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 shudder | cop |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 shudder | mark |
| 24 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 learn | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 find | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | wife's waiting maid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | find | future | I | a cure | for maid | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cure=Theme for he=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | learn | shall | maid | soon property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | 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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