Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 75
"Oh," replied the youth, "I wish to learn what shivering is, but nobody can teach me."
Who acts: youth, shivering, nobody · What happens: reply, wish, learn, be, teach · To what, where: youth · 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 (youth, shivering, nobody), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 youth | det |
| 7 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wish | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 wish | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 learn | mark |
| 13 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wish | xcomp |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 learn | ccomp |
| 15 | shivering | shivering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 what | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | cop |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 teach | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 teach | cc |
| 19 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 21 teach | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 teach | aux |
| 21 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wish | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 teach | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the youth | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | the youth = youth | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | learn not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the youth = youth not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | shivering | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | teach speech: other in a quote | can | nobody | the youth = youth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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