Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 67

The boy also went on his way and began again to say, "Ah, if only I could but shiver--if I could but shiver!"

Who acts: boy · What happens: go, begin, say · To what, where: way · 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 way	nmod:poss
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 began	cc
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 began	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 say	mark
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 could	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 could	punct
15	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	20 could	discourse
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Ah	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 could	mark
18	only	only	ADV	_	20 could	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 could	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 say	ccomp
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 shiver	cc
22	shiver	shiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 could	conj
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 could	punct
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 could	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 could	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 could	conj
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 shiver	cc
28	shiver	shiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 could	conj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 could	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	the boy	boy's way		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
2	begin	past	the boy not said here		again	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the boy not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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