Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 5

‘They are always saying: “It makes me shudder, it makes me shudder!”

Who acts: listeners, younger · What happens: say, make · To what, where: listeners · 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 (listeners, younger), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 saying	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saying	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 saying	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 saying	advmod
5	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 makes	csubj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 makes	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 makes	punct
8	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 makes	nsubj
9	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 saying	ccomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 makes	obj
11	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 makes	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 saying	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 makes	nsubj
14	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 makes	obj
16	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 makes	xcomp
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 makes	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 makes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present · progressive	listeners = listener		always property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make in a quote	present	younger = young	listeners = listener		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material i=Product
3	make in a quote	present	younger = young	listeners = listener		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material i=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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