Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 73

Then he sat down by his fire and fell asleep, and the next morning the man came to him and wanted to have the fifty talers, and said: ‘Well do you know how to shudder?’

Who acts: man, you · What happens: sit down, fall, come, want, have, say · To what, where: fire, fifty talers · 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 (man, you), 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	3 sat	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 fire	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fire	nmod:poss
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fell	cc
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fell	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 morning	det
14	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 morning	amod
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl:unmarked
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 wanted	cc
22	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 came	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 have	mark
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 wanted	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 talers	det
26	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 talers	nummod
27	talers	taler	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 have	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 know	punct
32	‘	'	PUNCT	_	36 know	punct
33	Well	well	INTJ	_	36 know	discourse
34	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 know	aux
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 know	nsubj
36	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 said	ccomp
37	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	39 shudder	advmod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 shudder	mark
39	shudder	shudder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 know	ccomp
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	36 know	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	36 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	man			then	by man's fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
2	fall	past	man not said here				asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	the man		fire	morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
4	want	past	the man not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	the man not said here	the fifty talers				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taler=Patient
6	say speech: assert	past	man not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	know	present · do-support	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	shudder	to-infinitive						vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	fire		man					nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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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