Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 64

No," he answered; "how should I know?

Who acts: shivering, I · What happens: answer, know

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 (shivering, I), 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	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 answered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 answered	nsubj
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 know	advmod
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 know	aux
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert in a quote	past	shivering						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know	should	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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