Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 52
Then will I go forth and learn how to shudder, and then I shall, at any rate, understand one art which will support me.’
Who acts: I, one art · What happens: go, learn, understand, support · To what, where: one art, me
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 (I, one art), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 go | advmod |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 learn | cc |
| 7 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 to | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 shudder | case |
| 10 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 learn | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shall | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shall | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 shall | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 shall | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rate | punct |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 rate | case |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 rate | det |
| 19 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 understand | punct |
| 21 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | parataxis |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 art | nummod |
| 23 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 understand | obj |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 support | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 support | aux |
| 26 | support | support | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 art | acl:relcl |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 support | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | then | forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | learn | infinitive | I not said here | to shudder | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | understand | infinitive | one art | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer art=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | support | future | one art | me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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