Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 94
But the youth said: ‘However difficult it may be, I will learn it.
Who acts: youth, hostess, I · What happens: say, be, learn · To what, where: hostess · 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, hostess, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 difficult | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 difficult | punct |
| 7 | However | however | ADV | _ | 8 difficult | advmod |
| 8 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 be | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 be | aux |
| 11 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 difficult | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 learn | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 learn | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 learn | aux |
| 15 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 difficult | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 learn | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the youth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | be | may | hostess | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | learn | future | I | hostess | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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