Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 11
I want to know what shivering means, for of that I can understand nothing."
Who acts: I, shivering · What happens: want, know, mean, understand · To what, where: nothing · 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, 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 | 2 want | nsubj |
| 2 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 know | mark |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 want | xcomp |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 means | obj |
| 6 | shivering | shivering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 understand | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 that | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 that | case |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 understand | obl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 understand | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 understand | aux |
| 14 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 know | parataxis |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 understand | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | shivering | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 4 | understand | can | I | nothing | for that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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