Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 95

When they had warmed themselves for a little while they said, "Comrade, shall we have a game of cards?" "

Who acts: cats, we · What happens: warm, say, have · To what, where: cats, Comrade, game · 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 (cats, we), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 warmed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 warmed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 warmed	aux
4	warmed	warm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 warmed	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 little	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 little	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 warmed	obl
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 said	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 warmed	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Comrade	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Comrade	punct
14	Comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 Comrade	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 game	det
20	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 cards	case
22	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 game	nmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Comrade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	warm	past · perfect	cats = cat	cats = cat	for a little	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
2	say speech: ask	past	cats = cat	Comrade		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent comrade=Topic
3	have in a quote	shall	we	a game of cards		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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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