Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 5

One day, however, his father said to him, "Do you hear, you there in the corner?

Who acts: father, way · What happens: say, hear · To what, where: way, corner · 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, way), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	8 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hear	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 hear	punct
13	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 hear	aux
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 hear	nsubj
15	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 you	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 hear	obj
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 hear	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 corner	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 corner	det
21	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hear	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	way's father		way		day	however property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	hear in a quote	present · do-support	way	way		the corner; there			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=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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