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title: So the boy went with the wagoner, and about evening time they arrive… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: So the boy went with the wagoner, and about evening time they arrived at an inn where they put up for the night, and while they were going into the parlor he said, quite aloud, "Oh, if I could but shiver--if I could but shiver!" Who acts: boy, sons. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Gri
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 78

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So the boy went with the wagoner, and about evening time they arrived at an inn where they put up for the night, and while they were going into the parlor he said, quite aloud, "Oh, if I could but shiver--if I could but shiver!"

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**Who acts:** boy, sons · **What happens:** go, arrive, put up, say · **To what, where:** inn, parlor · **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 (boy, sons), 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:pg11027:9:78
# text = So the boy went with the wagoner, and about evening time they arrived at an inn where they put up for the night, and while they were going into the parlor he said, quite aloud, "Oh, if I could but shiver--if I could but shiver!"
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wagoner	wagoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
27	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	parlor	parlor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	45	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
43	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	ccomp	_	_
46	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	shiver	shiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
50	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	ccomp	_	_
52	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	shiver	shiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	51	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the boy |  |  |  |  | with the wagoner | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with wagoner=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | sons *= son* |  |  | a inn | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **put up** | past | sons *= son* |  |  |  | night |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | past · progressive | sons *= son* |  |  | the parlor |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into parlor=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | boy |  |  |  |  | aloud *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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