Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 20
You shall soon learn what shivering means," thought the sexton, and getting up he went out too.
Who acts: You, shivering · What happens: learn, mean, think, get up, go out · To what, where: sexton · 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 (You, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 learn | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 learn | aux |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 learn | advmod |
| 4 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 means | obj |
| 6 | shivering | shivering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 learn | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 learn | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sexton | det |
| 12 | sexton | sexton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 15 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 went | csubj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 getting | compound:prt |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | shall | You | soon property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | shivering | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | past | the sexton | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sexton=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get up in a quote | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | go out in a quote | past | shivering | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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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