Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 111

Oh, if any one would but tell me!"

Who acts: one · What happens: tell · To what, where: me · 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 (one), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 tell	mark
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 tell	cc
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	would	any one		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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