Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 24

But the sexton did not stir, so that the boy might think it was a ghost.

Who acts: sexton, boy · What happens: not stir, think, be · To what, where: ghost · 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 (sexton, boy), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 stir	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sexton	det
3	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stir	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stir	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 stir	advmod
6	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
8	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 think	mark
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 so	fixed
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 think	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 think	aux
13	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stir	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ghost	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 ghost	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 ghost	det
17	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 think	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stir	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not stir	past · do-support	the sexton		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	think speech: other	might	the boy		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	sexton	a ghost	tree rules

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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