Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 86
‘Ah,’ replied the youth, ‘I do so wish I could shudder, but no one can teach me how.’
Who acts: I, one · What happens: reply, wish, shudder, teach · To what, where: youth, me · 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 (I, one), 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 | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 youth | det |
| 7 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wish | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 wish | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wish | aux |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 wish | advmod |
| 13 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | ccomp |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 shudder | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 shudder | aux |
| 16 | shudder | shudder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wish | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 teach | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 teach | cc |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 one | det |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 teach | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 teach | aux |
| 22 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wish | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 teach | obj |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 teach | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the youth | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wish | present · do-support | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shudder | could | I | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | teach speech: other | can | no one | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=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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