Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 14

But the father sighed and said, "What shivering means you may learn soon enough, but you will never get your bread by that."

Who acts: father, shivering, you · What happens: sigh, say, mean, learn, not get · To what, where: bread · 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 (father, shivering, you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 sighed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 father	det
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sighed	nsubj
4	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sighed	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 means	obj
10	shivering	shivering	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	nsubj
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 learn	nsubj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 learn	aux
14	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 means	ccomp
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 learn	advmod
16	enough	enough	ADV	_	14 learn	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 get	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 get	cc
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 get	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 get	aux
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 get	advmod
22	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sighed	ccomp
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 bread	nmod:poss
24	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 get	obj
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 that	case
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 get	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 get	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sigh	past	the father			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the father not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	mean in a quote	present	shivering			tree rules
4	learn in a quote	may	you		enough, soon property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not get in a quote	future	you	your bread	by that	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bread=Stimulus

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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