Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 9

At the bottom was another door, so he knocked upon it, and then heard a voice calling--

Who acts: Dummling, voice · What happens: be, knock, hear, call · To what, where: door, bottom, voice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dummling, voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 bottom	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bottom	det
3	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 door	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 door	cop
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knocked	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 knocked	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knocked	nsubj
10	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 door	acl:relcl
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knocked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 heard	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 heard	advmod
16	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 door	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 voice	det
18	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	obj
19	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 heard	xcomp
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 door	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	past		another door	the bottom		tree rules
2	knock	past	Dummling	another door not said here	door		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent door=Theme upon it=Destination
3	hear	past		a voice		then	tree rules
4	call	gerund	a voice not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

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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