Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 51

Sit yourself down there and wait till midnight, and then you will know what it is to shiver!"

Who acts: you, tree · What happens: sit down, wait, know, be · To what, where: yourself · 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, tree), 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	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Sit	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 Sit	compound:prt
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Sit	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wait	cc
6	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Sit	conj
7	till	till	ADP	_	8 midnight	case
8	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wait	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 know	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 know	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 know	aux
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sit	conj
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 shiver	obj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 shiver	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 shiver	cop
18	to	to	PART	_	19 shiver	mark
19	shiver	shiver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 know	ccomp
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Sit	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	imperative	you not said here	yourself	there			tree rules
2	wait	infinitive	you not said here			midnight		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	future	you			then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	is	present	tree				shiver property	tree rules

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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