Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 79
The host overheard him and said, laughingly, "Oh, if that is all you wish, you shall soon have the opportunity." "
Who acts: host, you · What happens: overhear, say, wish, have · To what, where: boy, opportunity · 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 (host, you), 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 host | det |
| 2 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 overheard | nsubj |
| 3 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 overheard | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 overheard | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 laughingly | punct |
| 8 | laughingly | laughingly | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 11 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 23 have | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Oh | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 all | mark |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 all | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 all | cop |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 Oh | vocative |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 wish | nsubj |
| 18 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 all | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Oh | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | aux |
| 22 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 have | advmod |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 opportunity | det |
| 25 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 have | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 overheard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overhear | past | the host | boy | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the host not said here | laughingly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wish in a quote | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | shall | you | the opportunity | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Patient |
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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