Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 3

Or when stories were told by the fire at night which made the flesh creep, the listeners sometimes said: ‘Oh, it makes us shudder!’

Who acts: fire, night, listeners, creep · What happens: tell, make, say · To what, where: stories, flesh creep, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, night, listeners, creep), 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	Or	or	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 told	mark
3	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 told	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux:pass
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 said	ccomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 made	nsubj
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 night	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 creep	det
14	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 creep	compound
15	creep	creep	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 listeners	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 listeners	det
18	listeners	listener	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 said	nsubj
19	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 said	advmod
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 makes	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 makes	punct
23	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	26 makes	discourse
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Oh	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 makes	nsubj
26	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 said	ccomp
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 makes	obj
28	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 makes	xcomp
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 makes	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 makes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive	the fire	stories	night		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
2	make	past	night	the flesh creep			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset creep=Product
3	say speech: assert	past	the listeners			sometimes property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make	present	creep	us			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material we=Product

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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