Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 23

‘You shall soon learn what shuddering is,’ thought he, and secretly went there before him; and when the boy was at the top of the tower and turned round, and was just going to take hold of the bell rope, he saw a white figure standing on the stairs opposite the sounding hole.

Who acts: You, shuddering, boy, white figure · What happens: learn, be, think, go, turn round, take · To what, where: sexton, top, hold, white figure, stairs, bell rope

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 (You, shuddering, boy, white figure), 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	_	5 learn	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 learn	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 learn	aux
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 learn	advmod
5	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 learn	obj
7	shuddering	shuddering	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 what	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
10	’	'	CCONJ	_	11 thought	cc
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 learn	advcl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
15	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	conj
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 went	advmod
18	before	before	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 top	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 top	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 top	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 boy	det
24	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 top	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 top	cop
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 top	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 top	det
28	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 learn	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 tower	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 tower	det
31	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 top	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 turned	cc
33	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 learn	conj
34	round	round	ADV	_	33 turned	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 going	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 going	cc
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 going	aux
38	just	just	ADV	_	39 going	advmod
39	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 turned	advcl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 take	mark
41	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 going	xcomp
42	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 take	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	46 rope	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 rope	det
45	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 rope	compound
46	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 hold	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 saw	punct
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 saw	nsubj
49	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 going	conj
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 figure	det
51	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 figure	amod
52	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 saw	obj
53	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 figure	acl
54	on	on	ADP	_	56 stairs	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 stairs	det
56	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 standing	obl
57	opposite	opposite	ADP	_	60 hole	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 hole	det
59	sounding	sounding	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 hole	compound
60	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 standing	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 learn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	shall	You				soon property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	shuddering					tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	You not said here	sexton				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
4	go	past	You not said here		there	before sexton	secretly property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before he=Location
5	is	past	the boy		the top		of the tower	tree rules
6	turn round	past	You not said here				round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	go	past · progressive	You not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	take	to-infinitive	You not said here	hold of the bell rope				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
9	see	past	boy	a white figure				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus
10	stand	gerund	a white figure not said here		the stairs		opposite the sounding hole	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stair=Location
11	hold			the bell rope				nom hold «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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