Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 44

"Yes, father, willingly; wait but one day, then I will go out and learn what shivering means, that I may at least understand one business which will support me."

Who acts: father, shivering · What happens: wait, go out, learn, mean, understand, support · To what, where: one business, least, father · 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, shivering), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 father	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 willingly	punct
6	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	4 father	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 wait	punct
8	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 father	parataxis
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 day	cc
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 day	nummod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wait	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 go	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 go	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 go	aux
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wait	conj
17	out	out	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 learn	cc
19	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 go	conj
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 means	obj
21	shivering	shivering	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 means	nsubj
22	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 learn	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 understand	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 understand	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 may	nsubj
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 understand	aux
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 least	case
28	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 understand	obl
29	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 go	parataxis
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 business	nummod
31	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 understand	obj
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 support	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 support	aux
34	support	support	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 understand	conj
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 support	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait in a quote	infinitive						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go out in a quote	future	the father = father			then	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	learn in a quote	infinitive	the father = father not said here					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	mean in a quote	present	shivering					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
5	understand in a quote	may		one business	least			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer business=Stimulus
6	support in a quote	future		the father = father				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=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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