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title: As soon as day broke the youth put his fifty dollars into a knapsack… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as day broke the youth put his fifty dollars into a knapsack and went out upon the high road, saying continually, "Oh, if I could but shiver!" Who acts: youth. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 48

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As soon as day broke the youth put his fifty dollars into a knapsack and went out upon the high road, saying continually, "Oh, if I could but shiver!"

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**Who acts:** youth · **What happens:** break, put, go out, say · **To what, where:** fifty dollars, knapsack · **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 (youth), 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:pg11027:9:48
# text = As soon as day broke the youth put his fifty dollars into a knapsack and went out upon the high road, saying continually, "Oh, if I could but shiver!"
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
24	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	31	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	shiver	shiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past |  |  |  |  | day | soon *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **put** | past | the youth | youth's fifty dollars |  | a knapsack |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent dollar=Goal |
| 3 | **go out** | past |  |  |  |  |  | upon the high road; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | continually *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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