Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 170

At last it fell out in this wise: one of the chambermaids said to the Princess, "Let me bring in my aid to teach him what shivering is."

Who acts: last, chambermaids, shivering · What happens: fall out, say, let, bring, teach, be · To what, where: wise, one, Princess, chambermaids, aid, contentment · 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 (last, chambermaids, 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	At	at	SCONJ	_	4 fell	mark
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fell	nsubj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	advcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 fell	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 wise	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 wise	nsubj
8	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fell	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 said	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 chambermaids	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chambermaids	det
13	chambermaids	chambermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 Princess	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Princess	det
17	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Let	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Let	punct
20	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 Let	obj
22	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 Let	xcomp
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 aid	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 aid	nmod:poss
25	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bring	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 teach	mark
27	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 bring	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 teach	obj
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 is	obj
30	shivering	shivering	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 is	nsubj
31	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 teach	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 Let	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	fall out	past	last			wise	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in wise=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the chambermaids	one	the Princess		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to princess=Recipient clause=Topic
3	let in a quote	infinitive		the chambermaids = chambermaid			tree rules
4	bring in a quote	infinitive	the chambermaids = chambermaid not said here			my aid	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
5	teach speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	the chambermaids = chambermaid not said here		contentment		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	be in a quote	present	shivering				vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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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