Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 166

My dead cousin came here, and a bearded man, who showed me a lot of gold down below; but what shivering means, no one has showed me!"

Who acts: dead cousin, bearded man, shivering, one · What happens: come, show, mean, have · To what, where: bearded man, lot, me

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 (dead cousin, bearded man, shivering, one), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cousin	nmod:poss
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cousin	amod
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 man	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	bearded	bearded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 showed	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 showed	nsubj
13	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 man	acl:relcl
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 showed	iobj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lot	det
16	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 showed	obl:unmarked
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 gold	case
18	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lot	nmod
19	down	down	ADV	_	20 below	advmod
20	below	below	ADV	_	13 showed	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 means	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 means	cc
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 means	obj
24	shivering	shivering	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 means	nsubj
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 has	punct
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 has	nsubj
29	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 means	parataxis
30	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 has	ccomp
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 showed	iobj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	My dead cousin	a bearded man		here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	show	past	a bearded man	a lot of gold	me		below property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	mean	present	shivering					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	have	present	no one					tree rules
5	show	past	no one not said here		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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