Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 47
"Yes, father, as you wish; but if you desire nothing else, I shall esteem that very lightly."
Who acts: you, father · What happens: wish, desire, esteem · To what, where: father, nothing, that · 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 (you, father), 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 | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wish | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wish | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 wish | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 wish | nsubj |
| 8 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 esteem | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 esteem | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 desire | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 desire | nsubj |
| 13 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 esteem | advcl |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 desire | obj |
| 15 | else | else | ADV | _ | 14 nothing | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 desire | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 esteem | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 esteem | aux |
| 19 | esteem | esteem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wish | ccomp |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 esteem | obj |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 lightly | advmod |
| 22 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 19 esteem | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wish | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | you | father | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | desire a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | nothing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | esteem in a quote | shall | the father = father | that | lightly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=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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