Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 137

Stop a moment," he cried; "I will warm it in a trice"; and stepping up to the fire he warmed his hands, and then laid them upon the face, but it remained cold.

Who acts: you, man, I, coffin · What happens: stop, cry, warm, step up, lay, remain · To what, where: coffin, trice, fire, hands, face · 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 (you, man, I, coffin), 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	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stop	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	parataxis
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 warm	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 warm	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 warm	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 warm	aux
12	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	ccomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 warm	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 trice	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 trice	det
16	trice	trice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 warm	obl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 warm	punct
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 warmed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 warmed	cc
20	stepping	step	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 warmed	csubj
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 stepping	compound:prt
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 fire	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fire	det
24	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stepping	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 warmed	nsubj
26	warmed	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	parataxis
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hands	nmod:poss
28	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 warmed	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 laid	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 laid	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 laid	advmod
32	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 warmed	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 laid	obj
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 face	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 face	det
36	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 laid	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 remained	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 remained	cc
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 remained	nsubj
40	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 warmed	conj
41	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 remained	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Stop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here			moment		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express in a quote	past	man					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	warm	future	I	coffin	a trice			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	step up in a quote	gerund			the fire			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to fire=Destination
5	warm in a quote	past	man	man's hands				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
6	lay in a quote	past	man not said here	hands = hand	the face	then		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme upon face=Destination
7	remain in a quote	past	coffin				cold property	vn exist-47.1 «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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