Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 97

So they stretched out their claws, and he said, "Ah, what long nails you have got; wait a bit, I must cut them off first"; and so saying he caught them up by the necks, and put them on his board and screwed their feet down. "

Who acts: paws, cold · What happens: stretch out, say, get, wait, cut off, catch up · To what, where: claws, long nails, bit, paws, board, feet · 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 (paws, cold), 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	_	3 stretched	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stretched	nsubj
3	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 stretched	compound:prt
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 claws	nmod:poss
6	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stretched	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stretched	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 got	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 got	punct
13	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	20 got	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Ah	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 got	obj
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 nails	amod
17	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 got	nsubj:pass
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 got	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 got	aux
20	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	ccomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 wait	punct
22	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stretched	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bit	det
24	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wait	obl:unmarked
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cut	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 cut	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 cut	aux
28	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 wait	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 cut	obj
30	off	off	ADP	_	28 cut	compound:prt
31	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 cut	advmod
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 cut	punct
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 saying	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 saying	cc
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 saying	advmod
36	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stretched	advcl
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 caught	nsubj
38	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 saying	ccomp
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 caught	obj
40	up	up	ADP	_	38 caught	compound:prt
41	by	by	ADP	_	43 necks	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 necks	det
43	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 caught	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 put	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 put	cc
46	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stretched	conj
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 put	obj
48	on	on	ADP	_	50 board	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 board	nmod:poss
50	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 put	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 screwed	cc
52	screwed	screw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stretched	conj
53	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 feet	nmod:poss
54	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 screwed	obj
55	down	down	ADV	_	52 screwed	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stretched	punct
57	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stretch out	past	paws = paw	paws's claws			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent claw=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	cold				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get in a quote	present · perfect · passive		long nails			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary what=Theme
4	wait in a quote	infinitive	paws = paw not said here	a bit			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cut off in a quote	must	cold	paws = paw		first property	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector they=Eventuality
6	say speech: assert	gerund	paws = paw not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	catch up	past	cold	paws = paw		by the necks	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
8	put	infinitive	paws = paw not said here	paws = paw	cold's board		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on board=Destination
9	screw down	past	paws = paw not said here	paws's feet		down property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=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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