Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 96

He let the host have no rest, until the latter told him, that not far from thence stood a haunted castle where anyone could very easily learn what shuddering was, if he would but watch in it for three nights.

Who acts: youth, host, latter, anyone, shuddering · What happens: let, have, tell, stand, haunt, learn · To what, where: rest, youth, haunted castle · 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, host, latter, anyone), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 host	det
4	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 let	ccomp
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 rest	det
7	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 told	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 latter	det
11	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 let	parataxis
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stood	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 stood	mark
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 far	advmod
17	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 stood	advmod
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 thence	case
19	thence	thence	ADV	_	17 far	obl
20	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 castle	det
22	haunted	haunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 castle	amod
23	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stood	obj
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 learn	advmod
25	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 learn	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 learn	aux
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 easily	advmod
28	easily	easily	ADV	_	29 learn	advmod
29	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 castle	acl:relcl
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 learn	ccomp
31	shuddering	shuddering	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 what	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 what	cop
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 would	punct
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 would	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 would	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 stood	advcl
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 watch	cc
38	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 would	conj
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 would	obl
41	for	for	ADP	_	43 nights	case
42	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 nights	nummod
43	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 would	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let	past	youth				tree rules
2	have	present	the host	no rest			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	past	the latter		youth		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	stand	past	the latter not said here	a haunted castle		far property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus
5	haunt	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	learn	could	anyone			easily property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past	shuddering	a haunted castle			tree rules
8	watch	infinitive	the latter not said here				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

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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