Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 96
Certainly," he replied; "but let me see your paws first."
Who acts: cold, me · What happens: reply, let, see · To what, where: me, paws · 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 (cold, me), 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 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 replied | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Certainly | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 let | cc |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | ccomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 paws | nmod:poss |
| 13 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 see | obj |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 see | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | cold | certainly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | me not said here | your paws | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer paw=Stimulus |
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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