Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 3

Or sometimes of an evening, tales were told by the fireside which made one shudder, and the listeners exclaimed, "Oh, it makes us shiver!"

Who acts: fireside, listeners, shudder, us · What happens: tell, make, exclaim, shiver · To what, where: tales, one shudder, us · 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 (fireside, listeners, shudder, us), 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	Or	or	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 told	advmod
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 evening	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 evening	det
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 evening	punct
7	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 told	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	aux:pass
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 fireside	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fireside	det
12	fireside	fireside	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	obl
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 made	nsubj
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fireside	acl:relcl
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 shudder	nummod
16	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 exclaimed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 exclaimed	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 listeners	det
20	listeners	listener	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 exclaimed	nsubj
21	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 makes	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 makes	punct
24	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	27 makes	discourse
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Oh	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 makes	nsubj
27	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 exclaimed	conj
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 makes	obj
29	shiver	shiver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 makes	xcomp
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 shiver	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive	the fireside	tales	evening	sometimes property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	make	past	the fireside	one shudder			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shudder=Product
3	exclaim speech: express	past	the listeners				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	make in a quote	present	shudder	us			tree rules
5	shiver in a quote	infinitive	us not said here				vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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