Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 41

He stood there at midnight like one who had done some evil; I did not know who it was, and cried three times, 'Speak, or be off!'"

Who acts: father, I, evil · What happens: stand, do, not know, be, cry, speak off · To what, where: one · 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 (father, I, evil), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 stood	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 midnight	case
5	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 done	mark
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 done	nsubj:pass
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 done	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 done	aux
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stood	advcl
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 evil	det
12	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 done	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 know	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 know	advmod
17	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stood	parataxis
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	17 know	ccomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 who	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 who	cop
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cried	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cried	cc
23	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 times	nummod
25	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 cried	obl:unmarked
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Speak	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 Speak	punct
28	Speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 cried	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 off	punct
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 off	cc
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 off	cop
32	off	off	ADP	_	28 Speak	compound:prt
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 Speak	punct
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 Speak	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stand	past	father		there	midnight	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	past · perfect · passive		one			tree rules
3	not know	past · do-support	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	evil				tree rules
5	cry speech: express	past				time	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	speak off speech: other	infinitive					vn talk-37.5 «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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