Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 168
"That is all very fine," replied the youth, "but still I don't know what shivering means."
Who acts: That, youth, King, shivering · What happens: be, reply, not know, mean · 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 (That, youth, King, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fine | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 fine | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fine | cop |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 fine | nsubj |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 fine | advmod |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fine | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 youth | det |
| 11 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fine | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 know | cc |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 know | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | aux |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 know | advmod |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fine | conj |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 means | obj |
| 21 | shivering | shivering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 means | nsubj |
| 22 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fine | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | That | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the youth | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | the King = king | still | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | mean in a quote | present | 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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