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title: I never thought to see you alive again," said he; "have you learnt n… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: I never thought to see you alive again," said he; "have you learnt now what shivering means?" " Who acts: I, King, you, shivering. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 109

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I never thought to see you alive again," said he; "have you learnt now what shivering means?" "

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**Who acts:** I, King, you, shivering · **What happens:** not think, see, say, learn, mean · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, King, you, shivering), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:9:109
# text = I never thought to see you alive again," said he; "have you learnt now what shivering means?" "
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	learnt	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
20	shivering	shivering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you |  |  | again | alive *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **learn** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **mean** | present | shivering |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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.

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**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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