Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 7

‘That, too, must be an art of which I understand nothing!’

Who acts: That, I · What happens: be, understand · To what, where: art, nothing

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 (That, I), 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	_	9 art	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 art	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 That	punct
4	too	too	ADV	_	2 That	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 That	punct
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 art	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 art	cop
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 art	det
9	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 understand	obl
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 understand	nsubj
13	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 art	parataxis
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 understand	obj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 art	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 art	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	must	That	a art					tree rules
2	understand	present	I	nothing				of a art	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=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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