Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 133

On the third night he sat down again on his bench, saying in great vexation, "Oh, if I could only shiver!"

Who acts: ringing · What happens: sit down, say, shiver · To what, where: bench, great vexation · 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 (ringing), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 night	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 night	amod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sat	nsubj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 sat	compound:prt
8	again	again	ADV	_	6 sat	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 bench	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bench	nmod:poss
11	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saying	punct
13	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sat	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 vexation	case
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 vexation	amod
16	vexation	vexation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saying	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 shiver	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 shiver	punct
19	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	25 shiver	discourse
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Oh	punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 shiver	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 shiver	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 shiver	aux
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 shiver	advmod
25	shiver	shiver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 saying	ccomp
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 shiver	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 shiver	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	sit down	past	ringing	ringing's bench	again; night	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location
2	say speech: express	gerund	ringing not said here	great vexation		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	shiver a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	could	ringing			vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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