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title: "Yes, father, willingly; wait but one day, then I will go out and le… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "Yes, father, willingly; wait but one day, then I will go out and learn what shivering means, that I may at least understand one business which will support me." Who acts: father, shivering. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, with its dependency tree an
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 44

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"Yes, father, willingly; wait but one day, then I will go out and learn what shivering means, that I may at least understand one business which will support me."

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**Who acts:** father, shivering · **What happens:** wait, go out, learn, mean, understand, support · **To what, where:** one business, least, father · **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 (father, 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:pg11027:9:44
# text = "Yes, father, willingly; wait but one day, then I will go out and learn what shivering means, that I may at least understand one business which will support me."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	obj	_	_
21	shivering	shivering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	obl	_	_
29	understand	understand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	support	support	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
35	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go out** *in a quote* | future | the father *= father* |  |  |  | then | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **learn** *in a quote* | infinitive | the father *= father* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | shivering |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 5 | **understand** *in a quote* | may |  | one business |  | least |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer business=Stimulus |
| 6 | **support** *in a quote* | future |  | the father *= father* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |

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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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