Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 53
But if I learn so speedily what shivering is, then you shall have my fifty dollars if you come again in the morning."
Who acts: I, shivering, you · What happens: learn, be, have, come · To what, where: fifty dollars
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 (I, shivering, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 have | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 learn | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 learn | nsubj |
| 4 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 have | advcl |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 speedily | advmod |
| 6 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 4 learn | advmod |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 learn | obj |
| 8 | shivering | shivering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 is | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 learn | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 have | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 have | aux |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 dollars | nmod:poss |
| 16 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 dollars | nummod |
| 17 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 have | obj |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 come | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 come | nsubj |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 have | advcl |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 morning | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 morning | det |
| 24 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn a condition, not said to happen | present | I | speedily property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be | present | shivering | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | shall | you | my fifty dollars | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Patient | |||
| 4 | come a condition, not said to happen | present | you | again; morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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