Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 109
I never thought to see you alive again," said he; "have you learnt now what shivering means?" "
Who acts: I, King, you, shivering · What happens: not think, see, say, learn, mean · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, King, you, shivering), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 thought | advmod |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | xcomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | obj |
| 7 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 see | xcomp |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 see | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 learnt | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 learnt | punct |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 learnt | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 learnt | nsubj |
| 17 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 thought | conj |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 what | advmod |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 means | obj |
| 20 | shivering | shivering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 means | nsubj |
| 21 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 learnt | acl:relcl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 learnt | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 learnt | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | past | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | again | alive property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | learn | present · perfect | you | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | shivering | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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