Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 135

Ah, ah," said he, "that is surely my little cousin, who died two days ago"; and beckoning with his finger he called, "Come, little cousin, come!"

Who acts: man, that, little cousin · What happens: say, be, die, beckon, call, come · To what, where: little cousin, finger · 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 (man, that, little cousin), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	ah	ah	INTJ	_	1 Ah	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cousin	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 cousin	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 cousin	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 cousin	cop
12	surely	surely	ADV	_	15 cousin	advmod
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 cousin	nmod:poss
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cousin	amod
15	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 died	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 died	nsubj
18	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cousin	acl:relcl
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 days	nummod
20	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 ago	obl:unmarked
21	ago	ago	ADV	_	18 died	advmod
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 died	punct
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 beckoning	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 beckoning	cc
25	beckoning	beckon	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 finger	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 finger	nmod:poss
28	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 beckoning	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 called	nsubj
30	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 finger	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Come	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 Come	punct
33	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cousin	punct
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 cousin	amod
36	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Come	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 come	punct
38	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 Come	conj
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	33 Come	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a	present	that	my little cousin	surely property	tree rules
3	die	past	my little cousin		ago property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	beckon in a quote	gerund	man not said here		with man's finger	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	call in a quote	past	man	man's finger not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent finger=Recipient
6	come	infinitive		little cousin		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	come	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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