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title: ‘You shall soon learn what shuddering is,’ thought he, and secretly… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘You shall soon learn what shuddering is,’ thought he, and secretly went there before him; and when the boy was at the top of the tower and turned round, and was just going to take hold of the bell rope, he saw a white figure standing on the stairs opposite the sounding hole. Who acts: You, shudderi
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 23

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‘You shall soon learn what shuddering is,’ thought he, and secretly went there before him; and when the boy was at the top of the tower and turned round, and was just going to take hold of the bell rope, he saw a white figure standing on the stairs opposite the sounding hole.

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**Who acts:** You, shuddering, boy, white figure · **What happens:** learn, be, think, go, turn round, take · **To what, where:** sexton, top, hold, white figure, stairs, bell rope

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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 (You, shuddering, boy, white figure), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2591:57:23
# text = ‘You shall soon learn what shuddering is,’ thought he, and secretly went there before him; and when the boy was at the top of the tower and turned round, and was just going to take hold of the bell rope, he saw a white figure standing on the stairs opposite the sounding hole.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
7	shuddering	shuddering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
18	before	before	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
34	round	round	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	just	just	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
53	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	52	acl	_	_
54	on	on	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obl	_	_
57	opposite	opposite	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	sounding	sounding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	_
60	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | shall | You |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | shuddering |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | You *not said here* | sexton |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past | You *not said here* |  |  | there | before sexton | secretly *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before he=Location |
| 5 | **is** | past | the boy |  |  | the top |  | of the tower | tree rules |
| 6 | **turn round** | past | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **go** | past · progressive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **take** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | hold of the bell rope |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 9 | **see** | past | boy | a white figure |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus |
| 10 | **stand** | gerund | a white figure *not said here* |  |  | the stairs |  | opposite the sounding hole | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stair=Location |
| 11 | **hold** |  |  | the bell rope |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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