--- title: ‘I shall still be able to find my way out,’ said he, and felt about,… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I shall still be able to find my way out,’ said he, and felt about, found the way into the room, and slept there by his fire. Who acts: I, youth. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2591:57:199 # text = ‘I shall still be able to find my way out,’ said he, and felt about, found the way into the room, and slept there by his fire. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 still still ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 cop _ _ 6 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 out out ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 slept sleep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 30 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | shall | I | | | | still | able *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my way | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | youth | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **feel** | past | | | | | | about *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **find** | past | | the way | | the room | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | | 6 | **sleep** | past | youth *not said here* | | | there | | by youth's fire | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **fire** | | youth | | | | | | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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. - ← previous: [sentence 198](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/57/198/) - next →: [sentence 200](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/57/200/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/57/)