Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 17

Oh, if that be all," answered the sexton, "he can learn that soon enough with me; just send him to my place, and I will soon teach him."

Who acts: shivering, I · What happens: answer, learn, send, teach · To what, where: sexton, that, shivering, place · 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 (shivering, I), 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	_	9 answered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 all	mark
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 all	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 all	cop
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Oh	vocative
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sexton	det
11	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 learn	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 learn	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 learn	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 learn	aux
16	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 answered	conj
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 learn	obj
18	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 learn	advmod
19	enough	enough	ADV	_	18 soon	advmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 learn	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 send	punct
23	just	just	ADV	_	24 send	advmod
24	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 learn	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 send	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 place	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 place	nmod:poss
28	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 send	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 teach	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 teach	cc
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 teach	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 teach	aux
33	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 teach	advmod
34	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 send	advcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 teach	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 send	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 send	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert in a quote	past		the sexton				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sexton=Eventuality
2	learn	can	shivering	that			with me; soon property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic
3	send	infinitive	shivering not said here	shivering		my place		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to place=Destination
4	teach speech: other	future	I		shivering		soon property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=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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