Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 52

"Oh, if that be all," answered the boy, "I can very easily do that!

Who acts: boy · What happens: answer, do · To what, where: 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 (boy), 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	_	10 answered	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	10 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 all	mark
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 all	nsubj
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 all	cop
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 Oh	vocative
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 do	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 do	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 do	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 do	aux
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 easily	advmod
18	easily	easily	ADV	_	19 do	advmod
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 answered	conj
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 do	obj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: express	past	the boy						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do in a quote	can	the boy = boy	that				easily property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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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