Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 112

The second night he went up again into the castle, and sitting down by the fire, began his old song, "If I could but shiver!"

Who acts: King · What happens: go up, sit down, begin, sing · To what, where: castle, old song

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 (King), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 went	compound:prt
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 castle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 castle	det
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 began	cc
13	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 began	advcl
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 sitting	advmod
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 fire	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fire	det
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sitting	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sitting	punct
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 song	nmod:poss
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 song	amod
22	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 began	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 could	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 could	punct
25	If	if	SCONJ	_	27 could	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 could	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 began	advcl
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 shiver	cc
29	shiver	shiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 could	conj
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 could	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	King		the castle	again; night		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	sit down	gerund					by the fire; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
3	begin	past	King not said here	King's old song				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality
4	sing		King					nom song «communication intransitive»: 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: «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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