Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 61

Sit down beneath it, and wait till night comes, and you will soon learn how to shudder.’

Who acts: you, night · What happens: sit down, wait, come, learn · To what, where: tree

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, night), 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	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Sit	compound:prt
3	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sit	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wait	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wait	cc
7	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Sit	conj
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 comes	mark
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 comes	nsubj
10	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wait	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 learn	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 learn	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 learn	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 learn	aux
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 learn	advmod
16	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sit	conj
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 to	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 shudder	case
19	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 learn	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Sit	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	imperative	you not said here	tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath it=Location
2	wait	infinitive	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	present	night			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	learn	future	you		to shudder; soon property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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