Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 4

In a corner, meanwhile, sat the younger son, listening, but he could not comprehend what was said, and he thought, "They say continually, 'Oh, it makes us shiver, it makes us shiver!' but perhaps shivering is an art which I cannot understand."

Who acts: way, sons, corner, us, shivering · What happens: sit, listen, not comprehend, say, think, make · To what, where: younger son, corner, us, art · 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 (way, sons, corner, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 corner	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 corner	det
3	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 corner	punct
5	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	7 sat	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 meanwhile	punct
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 son	det
9	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 son	amod
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 listening	punct
12	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sat	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 comprehend	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 comprehend	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 comprehend	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 comprehend	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 comprehend	advmod
18	comprehend	comprehend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 listening	conj
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 said	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 said	aux:pass
21	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 comprehend	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 thought	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 thought	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 thought	nsubj
25	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sat	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 say	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 say	punct
28	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 say	nsubj
29	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 thought	ccomp
30	continually	continually	ADV	_	29 say	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 makes	punct
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	36 makes	punct
33	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	36 makes	discourse
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Oh	punct
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 makes	nsubj
36	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 say	parataxis
37	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 makes	obj
38	shiver	shiver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 makes	xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 makes	punct
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 makes	nsubj
41	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 makes	conj
42	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 makes	obj
43	shiver	shiver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 makes	xcomp
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	43 shiver	punct
45	'	'	PUNCT	_	43 shiver	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 art	cc
47	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	51 art	advmod
48	shivering	shivering	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 art	nsubj
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 art	cop
50	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 art	det
51	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 makes	conj
52	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 understand	obj
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 understand	nsubj
54	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 understand	aux
55	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 understand	advmod
56	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 art	acl:relcl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past		the younger son	a corner	meanwhile property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent son=Theme in corner=Location
2	listen	gerund					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	not comprehend	could	way				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past · passive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
5	think speech: other	past	way				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	say speech: assert in a quote	present	sons = son			continually property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	make in a quote	present	corner	us			tree rules
8	shiver in a quote	infinitive	us not said here				vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	make in a quote	present	corner	us			tree rules
10	shiver in a quote	infinitive	us not said here				vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
11	is a in a quote	present	shivering	a art		perhaps property	tree rules
12	not understand in a quote	can	way	a art			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus

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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