Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 78
Ah, if I could but shudder!’
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 shudder | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 could | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 could | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 shudder | aux |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 shudder | cc |
| 7 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 shudder | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 shudder | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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