Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 63

The next morning the man came, expecting to receive his fifty dollars, and asked, "Now do you know what shivering means?" "

Who acts: man, you, shivering · What happens: come, expect, receive, ask, know, mean · To what, where: fifty dollars · 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 (man, you, shivering), 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	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 expecting	punct
8	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 came	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 receive	mark
10	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 expecting	xcomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 dollars	nmod:poss
12	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 dollars	nummod
13	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 receive	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 asked	cc
16	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct
19	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 know	advmod
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 know	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 know	nsubj
22	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 asked	ccomp
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 means	obj
24	shivering	shivering	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 means	nsubj
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 know	ccomp
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	come	past	the man		morning	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	expect	gerund	the man not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	receive not said to happen	to-infinitive	the man not said here	man's fifty dollars		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	the man not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	know in a quote	present · do-support	you		now	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	mean in a quote	present	shivering			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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