Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 91

At midnight he got up to stir the fire, and, as he poked it, there shrieked suddenly in one corner, "Miau, miau! how cold I am!" "

Who acts: King, Miau · What happens: get up, stir, poke, shriek, be · To what, where: fire, one corner · 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 (King, Miau), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 midnight	case
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 got	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stir	mark
7	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 got	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stir	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cold	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cold	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 and	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 poked	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 poked	nsubj
15	poked	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 cold	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 poked	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 shrieked	punct
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 shrieked	advmod
19	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 poked	conj
20	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	19 shrieked	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 corner	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 corner	nummod
23	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shrieked	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 poked	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 Miau	punct
26	Miau	Miau	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 cold	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 miau	punct
28	miau	miau	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Miau	conj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 Miau	punct
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 cold	advmod
31	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	parataxis
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 cold	nsubj
33	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 cold	cop
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 cold	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 cold	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past	King			midnight		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	stir	to-infinitive	King not said here	the fire				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fire=Experiencer
3	poke	past	King	fire				vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	shriek	participle	King not said here		one corner; there		suddenly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corner=Location
5	is in a quote	present	Miau and miau				cold property	tree rules

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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