Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 148
Oh, you wretch," he exclaimed, "now thou shalt learn what shivering means, for thou shalt die!"
Who acts: you, man, thou, shivering · What happens: wretch, exclaim, learn, mean, die · 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, thou, shivering), 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 | _ | 4 wretch | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wretch | nsubj |
| 4 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wretch | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 learn | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 learn | punct |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 learn | advmod |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 learn | nsubj |
| 13 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 14 learn | aux |
| 14 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 means | obj |
| 16 | shivering | shivering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 means | nsubj |
| 17 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 learn | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 die | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 die | mark |
| 20 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 die | nsubj |
| 21 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 22 die | aux |
| 22 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 learn | conj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 die | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wretch | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | learn | shall | thou | now | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | shivering | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 5 | die | shall | thou | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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