Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 90
Then at the entrance of the parlour the youth again said quite loudly: ‘If I could but shudder!
Who acts: youth · What happens: say · To what, where: parlour · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 entrance | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 entrance | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 entrance | det |
| 4 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 parlour | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 parlour | det |
| 7 | parlour | parlour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entrance | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 youth | det |
| 9 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 parlour | acl:relcl |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 13 loudly | advmod |
| 13 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 could | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 could | punct |
| 16 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 could | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 could | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 entrance | aux |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 shudder | cc |
| 20 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 could | conj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 entrance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the youth | the parlour not said here | again | loudly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent parlour=Topic |
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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