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title: At midnight he got up to stir the fire, and, as he poked it, there s… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: At midnight he got up to stir the fire, and, as he poked it, there shrieked suddenly in one corner, "Miau, miau! how cold I am!" " Who acts: King, Miau. 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 91

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At midnight he got up to stir the fire, and, as he poked it, there shrieked suddenly in one corner, "Miau, miau! how cold I am!" "

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**Who acts:** King, Miau · **What happens:** get up, stir, poke, shriek, be · **To what, where:** fire, one corner · **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 (King, Miau), 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:pg11027:9:91
# text = At midnight he got up to stir the fire, and, as he poked it, there shrieked suddenly in one corner, "Miau, miau! how cold I am!" "
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	stir	stir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	poked	poke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	shrieked	shriek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
20	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Miau	Miau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	miau	miau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
30	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
31	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
33	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get up** | past | King |  |  |  | midnight |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stir** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | the fire |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fire=Experiencer |
| 3 | **poke** | past | King | fire |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **shriek** | participle | King *not said here* |  |  | one corner; there |  | suddenly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corner=Location |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Miau and miau |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |

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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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