Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 58

When the day dawned, therefore, the boy put his fifty talers into his pocket, and went forth on the great highway, and continually said to himself: ‘If I could but shudder!

Who acts: boy · What happens: dawn, put, go, say · To what, where: fifty talers, pocket, great highway, boy · 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 (boy), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 dawned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dawned	obl:unmarked
4	dawned	dawn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 therefore	punct
6	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	4 dawned	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	nsubj
10	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dawned	parataxis
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 talers	nmod:poss
12	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 talers	nummod
13	talers	taler	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 put	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 pocket	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 pocket	nmod:poss
16	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 put	conj
20	forth	forth	ADV	_	19 went	advmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 highway	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 highway	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 highway	amod
24	highway	highway	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
27	continually	continually	ADV	_	28 said	advmod
28	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dawned	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 himself	case
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 said	obl
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 could	punct
32	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 could	punct
33	If	if	SCONJ	_	35 could	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 could	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dawned	conj
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 shudder	cc
37	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 could	conj
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 dawned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dawn	participle					day	therefore property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put	past	the boy	boy's fifty talers		boy's pocket			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent taler=Goal
3	go	past	the boy not said here			the great highway		forth property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on highway=Location
4	say speech: assert	participle			boy			continually property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient

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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