Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 16

Just fancy, when I asked him how he intended to earn his bread, he desired to learn what shivering meant!" "

Who acts: you, I, father, shivering · What happens: fancy, ask, intend, earn, desire, learn · To what, where: father, 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 (you, I, father, 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	Just	just	ADV	_	2 fancy	advmod
2	fancy	fancy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 asked	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 asked	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 asked	nsubj
6	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fancy	parataxis
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 asked	iobj
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 intended	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 intended	nsubj
10	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asked	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 earn	mark
12	earn	earn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 intended	xcomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 bread	nmod:poss
14	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 earn	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 desired	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 desired	nsubj
17	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asked	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 learn	mark
19	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 desired	xcomp
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 meant	obj
21	shivering	shivering	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 meant	nsubj
22	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 learn	ccomp
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 fancy	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 fancy	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 fancy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	fancy	imperative	you not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	ask speech: ask	past	I		father	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	intend	past	father			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	earn not said to happen	to-infinitive	father not said here	father's bread		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme
5	desire	past	father			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	learn not said to happen	to-infinitive	father not said here			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	mean	past	shivering			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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