Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 27

The sexton said to himself, "That is not a bad thought"; but he remained quiet as if he were a stone.

Who acts: sexton, That, boy · What happens: say, not be, remain, be · To what, where: boy, bad thought · 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, That, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sexton	det
2	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
8	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 thought	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 thought	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 thought	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thought	det
12	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thought	amod
13	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 remained	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 remained	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 remained	nsubj
18	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
19	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 remained	xcomp
20	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	25 stone	case
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 as	fixed
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 stone	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 stone	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 stone	det
25	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 remained	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the sexton		boy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
2	not is a in a quote	present	That	a bad thought			tree rules
3	remain	past	boy			quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	boy			as a stone	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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