Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 78
So the boy went with the wagoner, and about evening time they arrived at an inn where they put up for the night, and while they were going into the parlor he said, quite aloud, "Oh, if I could but shiver--if I could but shiver!"
Who acts: boy, sons · What happens: go, arrive, put up, say · To what, where: inn, parlor · 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, sons), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 wagoner | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wagoner | det |
| 7 | wagoner | wagoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 arrived | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 arrived | cc |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 time | compound |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arrived | obl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 arrived | nsubj |
| 14 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 inn | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 inn | det |
| 17 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arrived | obl |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 put | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 put | nsubj |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 inn | acl:relcl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 put | compound:prt |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 night | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 night | det |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 said | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 said | cc |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 going | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 going | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 going | aux |
| 30 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 said | advcl |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 parlor | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 parlor | det |
| 33 | parlor | parlor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 going | obl |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 said | nsubj |
| 35 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 aloud | punct |
| 37 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 38 aloud | advmod |
| 38 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 35 said | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 aloud | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 could | punct |
| 41 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 45 could | discourse |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Oh | punct |
| 43 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 45 could | mark |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 could | nsubj |
| 45 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 said | ccomp |
| 46 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 47 shiver | cc |
| 47 | shiver | shiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 could | conj |
| 48 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 51 could | punct |
| 49 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 51 could | mark |
| 50 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 51 could | nsubj |
| 51 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 said | ccomp |
| 52 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 53 shiver | cc |
| 53 | shiver | shiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 could | conj |
| 54 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 51 could | punct |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 could | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the boy | with the wagoner | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with wagoner=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | sons = son | a inn | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | put up | past | sons = son | night | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | sons = son | the parlor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into parlor=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | boy | aloud property | 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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