Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 56

The wind blew the bodies against one another, so that they swung backward and forward, and he thought, "If I am cold here below by the fire, how must they freeze above!"

Who acts: wind, bodies · What happens: blow, swing, think, be, freeze · To what, where: bodies · 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 (wind, bodies), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	nsubj
3	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bodies	det
5	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blew	obj
6	against	against	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 blew	obl
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 one	fixed
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 swung	punct
10	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 swung	mark
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 so	fixed
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 swung	nsubj
13	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blew	parataxis
14	backward	backward	ADV	_	13 swung	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 forward	cc
16	forward	forward	ADV	_	14 backward	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thought	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 thought	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 thought	nsubj
20	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 swung	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cold	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 cold	punct
23	If	if	SCONJ	_	26 cold	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 cold	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 cold	cop
26	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thought	ccomp
27	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 cold	advmod
28	below	below	ADV	_	26 cold	advmod
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 fire	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fire	det
31	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cold	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 freeze	punct
33	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	36 freeze	advmod
34	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 freeze	aux
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 freeze	nsubj
36	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 thought	ccomp
37	above	above	ADV	_	36 freeze	advmod
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 freeze	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 freeze	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the wind	the bodies		against one	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent body=Patient
2	swing	past	bodies = body			backward property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	think speech: other	past	wind				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	wind		here	by the fire; below, cold property	tree rules
5	freeze in a quote	must	bodies = body			above property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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