Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 169
So the gold was fetched, and the wedding was celebrated, but the young Prince (for the youth was a Prince now), notwithstanding his love for his bride, and his great contentment, was still continually crying, "If I could but shiver! if I could but shiver!"
Who acts: great contentment, Prince · What happens: fetch, celebrate, be, notwithstand, cry, love · To what, where: gold, wedding, Prince, love
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 (great contentment, Prince), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 fetched | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gold | det |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fetched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fetched | aux:pass |
| 5 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 celebrated | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 celebrated | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wedding | det |
| 9 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 11 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fetched | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 could | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 47 could | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Prince | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Prince | amod |
| 16 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 could | nsubj |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 youth | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 youth | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 youth | det |
| 20 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Prince | appos |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 Prince | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 Prince | det |
| 23 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 youth | appos |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 youth | advmod |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 now | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 notwithstanding | punct |
| 27 | notwithstanding | notwithstand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 youth | conj |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 love | nmod:poss |
| 29 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 notwithstanding | obj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 bride | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 bride | nmod:poss |
| 32 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 notwithstanding | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 crying | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 crying | cc |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 contentment | nmod:poss |
| 36 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 contentment | amod |
| 37 | contentment | contentment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 crying | nsubj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 contentment | punct |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 crying | aux |
| 40 | still | still | ADV | _ | 42 crying | advmod |
| 41 | continually | continually | ADV | _ | 42 crying | advmod |
| 42 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 Prince | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 could | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 could | punct |
| 45 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 47 could | mark |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 could | nsubj |
| 47 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fetched | advcl |
| 48 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 49 shiver | cc |
| 49 | shiver | shiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 could | conj |
| 50 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 47 could | punct |
| 51 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 53 could | mark |
| 52 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 53 could | nsubj |
| 53 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 could | conj |
| 54 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 55 shiver | cc |
| 55 | shiver | shiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 could | conj |
| 56 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 47 could | punct |
| 57 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 could | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | past · passive | the gold | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | celebrate | past · passive | the wedding | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | a Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | notwithstand | gerund | Prince's love | for Prince's bride | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past · progressive | Prince's great contentment | still | continually property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | love | Prince | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | content | Prince | nom contentment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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