Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 146
Oh, deary me," said he, "I shall never be able to shiver if I stop here all my lifetime!"
Who acts: deary, I · What happens: say, not be, shiver, stop · To what, where: lifetime · 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 (deary, I), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 deary | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | deary | deary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 deary | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 deary | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 deary | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 able | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 he | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 able | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 able | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 able | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 able | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 able | cop |
| 15 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 shiver | mark |
| 17 | shiver | shiver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 able | xcomp |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 stop | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 stop | nsubj |
| 20 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 shiver | advcl |
| 21 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 stop | advmod |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 lifetime | det:predet |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 lifetime | nmod:poss |
| 24 | lifetime | lifetime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stop | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | deary me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | shall | deary | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shiver | to-infinitive | deary not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | stop a condition, not said to happen | present | I | my lifetime | here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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