Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 77

The youth likewise went his way, and once more began to mutter to himself: ‘Ah, if I could but shudder!

Who acts: youth · What happens: go, begin, mutter · To what, where: way, youth

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 (youth), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
3	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 more	advmod
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 began	advmod
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 mutter	mark
13	mutter	mutter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 mutter	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 could	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 could	punct
18	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	22 could	discourse
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Ah	punct
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 could	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 could	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 went	advcl
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 shudder	cc
24	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 could	conj
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	the youth	youth's way		likewise property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	begin	past	the youth not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	mutter speech: assert	to-infinitive	the youth not said here		youth		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: 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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